#loneliness

...until that moment I had not understood that this was a story about lonely people, about absence and loss, and that that was why I had taken refuge in it until it became confused with my own life, like someone who has escaped into the pages of a novel because those whom he needs to love seem nothing more than ghosts inhabiting the mind of a stranger. ↗

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

#loss #strangers #life

Loneliness is proof that your innate search for connection is intact. ↗

— Martha Beck

#innate #intact #loneliness #proof #search

Like you're riding a train at night across some vast plain, and you catch a glimpse of a tiny light in a window of a farmhouse. In an instant it's sucked back into the darkness behind and vanishes. But if you close your eyes, that point of light stays with you, just barely for a few moments. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#longing #love #love

People Die... Beauty Fades... Love Changes... And You Will Always Be Alone ↗

— L.J. Smith

#creepy #dark #loneliness #love #lovely

It is beautiful, it is endless, it is full and yet seems empty. It hurts us. ↗

— Jackson Pearce

#emotions #emptiness #empty #fathomless #jackson-pearce

Anger is a manifestation of a deeper issue... and that, for me, is based on insecurity, self-esteem and loneliness. ↗

— Naomi Campbell

#based #deeper #insecurity #issue #loneliness

If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. ↗

— Anton Chekhov

#loneliness #marry #you

I sought my father in the world of the black musician, because it contained wisdom, experience, sadness and loneliness. I was not ever interested in the music of boys. From my youngest years, I was interested in the music of men. ↗

— Eric Clapton

#black #contained #ever #experience #father

We are all so afraid, we are all so alone, we all so need from the outside the assurance of our own worthiness to exist. So, for a time, if such a passion come to fruition, the man will get what he wants. He will get the moral support, the encouragement, the relief from the sense of loneliness, the assurance of his own worth. But these things pass away; inevitably they pass away as the shadows pass across sundials. It is sad, but it is so. The pages of the book will become familiar; the beautiful corner of the road will have been turned too many times. Well, this is the saddest story. ↗

— Ford Madox Ford

#insecurity #loneliness #beauty

The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness. ↗

— Norman Cousins

#eternal #his #human #human being #individual