#lone

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

Have you ever met someone and felt… I don't know how to describe it, felt a chance at having something that eluded you? I don't know… Forget I said anything." I knew what he meant. He was describing that moment when you realize that you are lonely. For a time you can be alone and doing fine and never give a thought to living any other way and then you meet someone and suddenly you become lonely. It stabs at you, almost like a physical pain, and you feel both deprived and angry, deprived because you wish to be with that person and angry, because their absence brings you misery. It's a strange feeling, akin to desperation, a feeling that makes you wait by the phone even though you know that the call is an hour away. I was not going to lose my balance. Not yet. ↗

— Ilona Andrews

#chance

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

#loneliness #birth

It all comes down to this: when you recognise your loneliness in another person, when you see desperation so familiar to yours written across someone else, you can’t just let them leave. ↗

— Chloe Rattray

#love #love

...real loneliness is having no one to miss. Think yourself lucky you've known something worth missing. ↗

— Emma Donoghue

#loss #love #love

Love seeks out that desperate, lonely, frightened place inside each of us and coaxes it out into the daylight, so that it can eviscerate it in the burning heat of the sun. ↗

— Cassondra Windwalker

#love #love

How was it possible to be with someone and yet feel so utterly alone? How was it possible to be with someone as wonderful, warm and kind as Andrew and yet still wonder if love would ever find you? ↗

— Chris Manby

#loneliness #love

He stretched out on the bed and was suddenly struck by how utterly lonely he was. ↗

— Tim LaHaye

#lonely #love #love

ن! نعم .. فقط شعرت بالوحدة.. وأن قلباً كان ينبض لي في الطرف الآخر من الكرة الأرضية قد توقف لم يكن حزناً أبداً،، كان خمولا مبعثه الشعور بأني ناقصة، تناقصت من أرواحي التسعة روح أو اثنتان لكنها كانت الأرواح الأكثر حياة، والتي تشبهك الأكثر حتماً! ↗

— Raiya Hesham

#love #love

An emptiness rules at its core, a rottenness, a silence when one of you retires to bed without saying good night, when you eat together without conversation, when the phone's passed wordlessly to the other. An emptiness when every night you lie in the double bed, restlessly awake, astounded at how closely hate can nudge against love, can wind around it sinuously like a cat. An emptiness when you realize that the loneliest you've ever been is within a marriage, as a wife. ↗

— Nikki Gemmell

#marriage #love