#loneliness

Loneliness is about the scariest thing out there. ↗

— Joss Whedon

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I had traded the fight against love for the fight against loneliness, the fight against life for the fight against death. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#fight #loneliness #love #beauty

The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence. ↗

— Tom Wolfe

#belief #central #conviction #curious #existence

In the past I have never thought about loneliness when working, and I don't think about it now. Yet there must be a reason for the fact that so many people talk about it. ↗

— Alberto Giacometti

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The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

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Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate. ↗

— Germaine Greer

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Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness. ↗

— Dag Hammarskjold

#anguish #delivered #loneliness #needs #solitude

Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for. ↗

— Dag Hammarskjold

#enough #finding #great #into #live

Everybody has something that chews them up and, for me, that thing was always loneliness. The cinema has the power to make you not feel lonely, even when you are. ↗

— Tom Hanks

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There's a difference between solitude and loneliness. I can understand the concept of being a monk for a while. ↗

— Tom Hanks

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