#loneliness

being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right. ↗

— Charles Bukowski

#solitude #women

I feel too much. That's what's going on.' 'Do you think one can feel too much? Or just feel in the wrong ways?' 'My insides don't match up with my outsides.' 'Do anyone's insides and outsides match up?' 'I don't know. I'm only me.' 'Maybe that's what a person's personality is: the difference between the inside and outside.' 'But it's worse for me.' 'I wonder if everyone thinks it's worse for him.' 'Probably. But it really is worse for me. ↗

— Jonathan Safran Foer

#differences #emotions #loneliness #people #personality

People drain me, even the closest of friends, and I find loneliness to be the best state in the union to live in. ↗

— Margaret Cho

#closest #drain #even #find #friends

At the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep and powerful yearning for union with one's lost self. ↗

— Brendan Francis

#deep #innermost #loneliness #lost #powerful

Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not. ↗

— Anna Neagle

#pleasant #solitude

While the resurrection promises us a new and perfect life in the future, God loves us too much to leave us alone to contend with the pain, guilt and loneliness of our present life. ↗

— Josh McDowell

#contend #future #god #guilt #leave

Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better. ↗

— Henry Rollins

#air #beauty #better #burn #life

If you write fiction, you're by yourself. There are certain advantages to that in that you don't have to explain anything to anybody. But when you get in with others who share the loneliness of the whole enterprise, you're not lonely anymore. ↗

— Denis Johnson

#anybody #anymore #anything #certain #enterprise

It would be really wonderful if people connected to the loneliness of what it means to be a human being in the world today. ↗

— Elisabeth Shue

#connected #human #human being #loneliness #means

The sky is one whole, the water another; and between those two infinities the soul of man is in loneliness. ↗

— Henryk Sienkiewicz

#between #infinities #loneliness #man #sky