#lines

I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason. It has been the desperate attempt to escape from torturing memories, from a sense of insupportable loneliness and a dread of some strange impending doom. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#alchohol #drinking #drugs #loneliness #melancholy

The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#life

I've produced more pilots than United Airlines, and they've all been disasters. Every audition I ever took in my life I lost. ↗

— Willard Scott

#audition #been #disasters #ever #every

There’s a loneliness that only exists in one’s mind. The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is blink. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#fitzgerald #loneliness #scott #life

On this road there are no godspoke men. They are gone and I am left and they have taken with them the world. ↗

— Cormac McCarthy

#life #loneliness #life

Loneliness seems to have become the great American disease. ↗

— John Corry

#become #disease #great #great american #loneliness

There is no living being on earth at this moment except myself. I could walk down the halls, and empty rooms would yawn mockingly at me from every side. God, but life is loneliness, despite all the opiates, despite the shrill tinsel gaiety of 'parties' with no purpose, despite the false grinning faces we all wear. And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter — they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from being kept in the small cramped dark inside you so long. Yes, there is joy, fulfillment and companionship — but the loneliness of the soul in it's appalling self-consciousness, is horrible and overpowering. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

#life

What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear. ↗

— Dag Hammarskjold

#bear #burden #i #loneliness #makes

Lucy seemed to be imprisoned by a legion of people in her life who always wanted what was right for her. And as a result, in the eyes of everyone, she had everything... and yet she always, always felt she had nothing. No one. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#imprisoned #loneliness #saint-paul-trois-châteaux- #life

The world is already yours - why try to conquer it? ↗

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

#acceptance #appreciation #conquer #consciousness #contentment