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• It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Lonely, Being Alone

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• I've noticed that loneliness gets stronger when we try to face it down, but gets weaker when we simply ignore it.

  Paulo Coelho

  Trying, Stronger, Faces

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• If loneliness was a choice, what was the other option? To settle for second-best and try to be happy with that? And was that fair to the person you settled for?

  Lisa Kleypas

  Choices, Trying, Second Best

  Lisa Kleypas (2010). “Sugar Daddy: A Novel”, p.179, Macmillan

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• You do not have to be alone. The world never inflicts loneliness upon us. That is something we choose or reject by ourselves.

  Darren Shan

  World, Rejects

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• I am stronger than depression and I am braver than loneliness and nothing will ever exhaust me.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Stronger, Eat Love Pray, Bali Eat Pray Love

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.56, A&C Black

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• In cities no one is quiet but many are lonely; in the country, people are quiet but few are lonely.

  Geoffrey Fisher

  Country, Lonely, Cities

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• The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.

  Mark Twain

  Lonely, Self Esteem, Love Yourself

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• An intimate relationship does not banish loneliness. Only when we are comfortable with who we are can we truly function independently in a healthy way, can we truly function within a relationship. Two halves do not make a whole when it comes to a healthy relationship: it takes two wholes.

  Patricia L. Fry

  Relationship, Money, Two

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• The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.

  Edward Gibbon

  Time, Being Alone, Thinking

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• There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.

  Dante Alighieri

  Inspirational, Happiness, Sad

  Dante Alighieri, Stanley Lombardo (2009). “Inferno”, p.26, Hackett Publishing

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• The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Friendship, Lonely, Being Alone

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.112, Penguin

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• I am never lonely when I am reading the Bible. Nothing dissolves loneliness like a session with God's Word.

  Billy Graham

  Lonely, Reading, Session

  Billy Graham, Franklin Graham, Donna Lee Toney (2011). “Billy Graham in Quotes”, p.97, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.

  Aristotle

  Lonely, Philosophical, Being Alone

  Aristotle (1953). “Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics”

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• Loneliness becomes an acid that eats away at you.

  Haruki Murakami

  Acid

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “1Q84:”, p.33, Random House

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• There is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a dream, a grotesque and foolish dream. Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought -a vagrant thought, a useless thought, a homeless thought, wandering forlorn among the empty eternities!

  Mark Twain

  Dream, Lonely, Race

  The Mysterious Stranger ch. 11 (1916)

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• With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only a reflection of themselves.

  Eric Hoffer

  Lonely, Being Alone, Eye

  Eric Hoffer (1955). “The passionate state of mind, and other aphorisms”

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• It seems to be that loneliness is a small price to pay for peace and quiet.

  Bart Yates

  Pay, Quiet, Seems

  Bart Yates (2006). “The Brothers Bishop”, p.56, Kensington Books

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• We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.

  Tennessee Williams

  Lonely, Being Alone, Solitary Life

  Orpheus Descending act 2, sc. 1 (1958)

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• Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate.

  Germaine Greer

  Wisdom, Lonely, Being Alone

  Germaine Greer (1972). “The female eunuch”

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• Man's loneliness is but his fear of life.

  Eugene O'Neill

  Lonely, Being Alone, Men

  1927 Lazarus. Lazarus Laughed, act 3, sc.2.

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• Loneliness is my least favorite thing about life. The thing that I'm most worried about is just being alone without anybody to care for or someone who will care for me.

  Anne Hathaway

  Lonely, Being Alone, Feeling Alone

  Interview with Angelina Jolie, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 27, 2010.

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• There is something so sad about going online and seeing almost everyone shouting ‘Notice me, notice me!’ Which is such a human desire—to be acknowledged. But me responding to that with some sort of ‘You’re noticed, you’re seen’ only perpetuates the loneliness. Because I’m not seeing you; I’m not noticing you. And whoever you are, you so deserve to be noticed and valued. I feel lucky to have not grown up with the Internet because it forced me to get out, struggle and be so messy.

  Taylor Schilling

  Struggle, Desire, Lucky

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• All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart.

  Tahereh Mafi

  Love, Heart, Compassion

  Tahereh Mafi (2014). “Shatter Me Complete Collection: Shatter Me, Destroy Me, Unravel Me, Fracture Me, Ignite Me”, p.38, Harper Collins

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• You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.

  Wayne Dyer

  Confidence, Lonely, Clever

  "Dr. Wayne Dyer Lives On" by Stephanie Seibel, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 3, 2015.

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• My peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication - it makes them sociable. I, however, cannot force myself to use drugs to cheat on my loneliness - it is all that I have - and when the drugs and alcohol dissipate, will be all that my peers have as well.

  Franz Kafka

  Cheating, Mean, Alcohol

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