#loneliness

A joker is a little fool who is different from everyone else. He's not a club, diamond, heart, or spade. He's not an eight or a nine, a king or a jack. He is an outsider. He is placed in the same pack as the other cards, but he doesn't belong there. Therefore, he can be removed without anybody missing him. ↗

— Jostein Gaarder

#joker #loneliness #stranger #king

She learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#horror

And loneliness. I should say something of loneliness. The panic, the sweeping hysteria that comes not when you are without others, but when you are without yourself, adrift. I should describe the filthy province of mind, the blighted district inside, the place so crowded you cannot raise the lids of your eyes. Your shoulders are drawn and your head has fallen and your chest is bruised by the constant assault of your heart. (p. 37) ↗

— Hilary Thayer Hamann

#loneliness #hilarious

Being a good host offsets the deprivation and loneliness of my youth. ↗

— Alan Ladd

#deprivation #good #host #loneliness #youth

Loneliness comes with life. ↗

— Whitney Houston

#life #loneliness

I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen. ↗

— Carson McCullers

#create #essential #i #keen #less

Fame doesn't end loneliness. ↗

— Claire Danes

#fame #loneliness

I'm just a believer in keeping all of the creative brain cells moving and working even when you're not working because the inevitable loneliness and boring drought in the actor's world, it can eat you alive. ↗

— Nikki Reed

#alive #because #believer #boring #brain

Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self. ↗

— May Sarton

#poverty #richness #self #solitude

Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#desire #escape #far #greater #intercourse