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• It didn't occur to him that she might have chosen to remain this way. That where he saw reserve and loneliness, Cassandra saw self-preservation and the knowledge that it was safer when one had less to lose.

  Kate Morton

  Self, Way, Saws

  Kate Morton (2009). “The Forgotten Garden: A Novel”, p.59, Simon and Schuster

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• The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.

  Lois Lowry

  Lonely, Pain, Memories

  Lois Lowry (2014). “The Giver Movie Tie-In Edition”, p.193, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Some nights are made for torture, or reflection, or the savoring of loneliness.

  Poppy Z. Brite

  Good Night, Reflection, Great Night

  "Lost souls". Book by Poppy Z. Brite, 1992.

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  The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!

  Edith Wharton

  Real, People, Kind

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.2005, Delphi Classics

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• Snuggle in God's arms. When you are hurting, when you feel lonely, left out. let Him cradle you, comfort you, reassure you of His all-sufficient power and love.

  Kay Arthur

  Lonely, Hurt, Christian Inspirational

  Kay Arthur (1995). “My Savior, My Friend: A Daily Devotional”, Harvest House Pub

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• The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside

  Anne Frank

  Lonely, Nature, Being Alone

  Anne Frank, General Press (2016). “The Diary of a Young Girl”, p.107, GENERAL PRESS

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• The cinema has the power to make you not feel lonely, even when you are.

  Tom Hanks

  Lonely, Cinema, Feels

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• Every time I look at you I get a fierce desire to be lonesome.

  Oscar Levant

  Funny, Sarcastic, Sarcasm

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• For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.

  Francis Bacon

  Love, Real Friends, Solitude

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Friendship'

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• There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.

  Eric Hoffer

  Failure, Being Alone, House

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Love, Lonely, Inspiration

  "To My Daughters, With Love (To You on Your First Birthday)". Book by Pearl S. Buck, 1967.

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• Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.

  Douglas Coupland

  Life, Lonely, Being Alone

  Douglas Coupland (1993). “Shampoo Planet”, p.259, Simon and Schuster

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• I think I'm Swedish because I like to live here on this island. You can't imagine the loneliness and isolation in this country. In that way, I'm very Swedish - I don't dislike to be alone.

  Ingmar Bergman

  Country, Thinking, Islands

  Ingmar Bergman, Raphael Shargel (2007). “Ingmar Bergman: Interviews”, p.170, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Loneliness Got a mind of its own The more people around The more you feel alone

  Bob Dylan

  People, Mind, Feels

  Song: Marchin' to the City

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• Man is like an island set in isolation in a fathomless sea enveloped by darkness, saying that the loneliness his self knows is so utterly absolute because even he knows not his self completely.

  Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas

  Men, Islands, Self

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• When we truly realize that we are all alone is when we need others the most.

  Ronald Anthony Cross

  Lonely, Being Alone, Feeling Alone

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• Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.

  Bell Hooks

  Love, Life, Meaningful

  "Time Spent in a Psych Ward" by Erin Nugent, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 10, 2015.

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• A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man - the one he used to be.

  Cesare Pavese

  Single, Boys, Men

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.202, Transaction Publishers

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• The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.

  Lorraine Hansberry

  Happiness, Inspiring, Success

  "To Be Young, Gifted and Black : Lorraine Hansberry in Her Own Words" by Lorraine Hansberry, (p. 137), 1969.

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• You see, to me, the art of music is listening to it, not playing it. The real art of it is hearing it.

  Keith Richards

  Art, Real, Listening

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• It is better to be lonely than allow people who are not going anywhere keep you from your destiny.

  Joel Osteen

  Inspirational, Life, Success

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• I want to be left alone.

  Greta Garbo

  Lonely, Fear, Solitude

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Of God's love we can say two things: it is poured out universally for everyone from the Pope to the loneliest wino on the planet; and secondly, God's love doesn't seek value, it creates value. It is not because we have value that we are loved, but because we are loved that we have value. Our value is a gift, not an achievement.

  William Sloane Coffin

  Love, God, Two

  William Sloane Coffin (2004). “Credo”, p.6, Westminster John Knox Press

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• So, now I shall talk every night. To myself. To the moon. I shall walk, as I did tonight, jealous of my loneliness, in the blue-silver of the cold moon, shining brilliantly on the drifts of fresh-fallen snow, with the myriad sparkles. I talk to myself and look at the dark trees, blessedly neutral. So much easier than facing people, than having to look happy, invulnerable, clever.

  Sylvia Plath

  Clever, Jealous, Dark

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.200, Anchor

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• I don't deliberately look for something dark or bleak or disconnected, in fact that's not something I'm even conscious of in the work as I'm making it. I'm always trying to create beauty, reveal hope, show the sense of longing that exists in isolation and loneliness, and capture the search for something greater inside all of my subjects.

  Gregory Crewdson

  Beauty, Photography, Hope

  "Creating Photographic Art - Exclusive Interview With Gregory Crewdson". Interview with David Geffin, fstoppers.com. October 11, 2014.

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