#lon

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things. ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

#attention #back #come #had #happen

To be me is to be different... ↗

— Robert Fanney

#left-out #lonely #luthiel #self #dreams

I think it's good for a person to spend time alone. It gives them an opportunity to discover who they are and to figure out why they are always alone. ↗

— Amy Sedaris

#being-alone #self-knowledge #time

may came home with a smooth round stone as small as a world and as large as alone. ↗

— E.E. Cummings

#poetry #travel #travel

When you're surrounded by all these people, it can be lonelier than when you're by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don't feel like you can trust anyone or talk to anybody, you feel like you're really alone. ↗

— Fiona Apple

#loneliness #musician #people #society #society

Why do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness? ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#loneliness #sadness #people

Do you ever feel that way?" "Lonely?" I search for the words. "Restless. As if you haven't really met yourself yet. As is you'd passed yourself once in the fog, and your heart leapt - 'Ah! There I Am! I've been missing that piece!' But it happens too fast, and then that part of you disappears into the fog again. And you spend the rest of your days looking for it." He nods, and I think he's appeasing me. I feel stupid of having said it. It's sentimental and true, and I've revealed a part of myself I shouldn't have. "Do you know what I think?" Kartik says at last. "What?" "Sometimes, I think you can glimpse it in another. ↗

— Libba Bray

#found #gemma-doyle #kartik #lonely #lost

Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#loneliness #loner #solitude #people

Many people need desperately to receive this message: 'I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#need

I don't even remember the season. I just remember walking between them and feeling for the first time that I belonged somewhere. ↗

— Stephen Chbosky

#remember