#loneliness

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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The concept of loneliness and exile and self-sufficiency continually bucks me up. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#concept #continually #exile #loneliness #me

There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#greater #his #house #loneliness #own

The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#loneliness #marriage #single #spinsterhood #marriage

Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#people #scared #world #men

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#music #refuge #music

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

Loneliness is the standard that separates life from death. ↗

— Sorin Cerin

#life #loneliness #death

The surest sign of age is loneliness. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#loneliness #sign #surest