#lone

Ursula craved solitude but she hated loneliness ↗

— Kate Atkinson

#hate #life #loneliness #lonely #solitude

All these people moving through life, all around me, and no one, not a single person, knows what I'm going through. ↗

— Lee Thompson

#life #lonely #struggle #life

And if you couldn't be loved, the next best thing was to be let alone. ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

#hill #jane #lantern #love #love

Books that have become classics - books that have had their day and now get more praise than perusal - always remind me of retired colonels and majors and captains who, having reached the age limit, find themselves retired on half pay. ↗

— Thomas Bailey Aldrich

#always #become #books #captains #classics

The fastest way for me to achieve self-improvement is with The Opponent Apparatus (my clone). ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#self-improvement #change

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

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 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

Come here, baby." And with my words, Echo leaned into me soft, pliant, broken. "You're not alone," I whispered into her hair as I cradled her in my arms. "You're not alone, because you have me." And I love you, more than you could ever know ↗

— Katie McGarry

#katie-mcgarry #love #noah-hutchins #not-alone #pushing-the-limits