#lon

. . . What a pleasant life could be had in this world by a handsome, sensible old lady of good fortune, blessed with a sound constitution and a firm will ↗

— Stella Gibbons

#good-fortune #happiness #long-life #age

I don’t care too much about talking, but I don’t like being alone. ↗

— Ida Løkås

#friendship #life #talking #friendship

I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don’t know why, some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness. ↗

— Anaïs Nin

#loneliness #love #love

We all have an old knot in the heart we wish to untie. ↗

— Michael Ondaatje

#loss #love #memory #love

Live and learn, or you don't live long. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#love

I miss you. I miss you. I miss you, I miss you. Be ready, because when I see you, I'll never let you go again. ↗

— Veronica Rossi

#love #never-let-go #love

Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it inflames the great. ↗

— Roger de Bussy-Rabutin

#long-distance-love #longing #love #separation #love

It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window. ↗

— Raymond Chandler

#sex-appeal #love

Did you miss me while you were looking for yourself out there.. ↗

— Train

#love #miss-me #love

We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community. ↗

— Dorothy Day

#loneliness #love #love