#lon

والقهوة يجب أن يقدّمها لك شخصٌ ما. القهوةُ كالوَرْد، فالورد يقدّمه لك سِواك، ولا أحدَ يقدّم ورداً لنفسه. وإن أعددتها لنفسك فأنت لحظتها في عزلة حرة بلا عاشق أو عزيز، غريبٌ في مكانك. وإن كان هذا اختياراً فأنت تدفع ثمن حريتك، وإن كان اضطراراً فأنت في حاجةٍ إلى جرس الباب. ↗

— مريد البرغوثي

#loneliness #love #love

. . . 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