#loneliness

We need to bridge our sense of loneliness and disconnection with a sense of community and continuity even if we must manufacture it from our time on the Web and our use of calling cards to connect long distance. We must “log on” somewhere, and if it is only in cyberspace, that is still far better than nowhere at all. (264) ↗

— Julia Cameron

#connection #continuity #disconnection #friendships #loneliness

That’s why I was calm. When you woke me in the middle of the night with your hand around my throat, and I thought I was going to die for bringing you home—that I had given my life to lie down next to a murderer—that’s why I was calm. Because all I was thinking in that moment was that it was worth it. ↗

— Julio-Alexi Genao

#home

My reputation is largely the creature of the kindly imaginings of my flock, whom I chose not to disillusion, in part because the truth had the kind of pathos in it that would bring on sympathy in its least bearable forms. ↗

— Marilynne Robinson

#sympathy #imagination

When my head is in the typewriter the last thing on my mind is some imaginary reader. I don’t have an audience; I have a set of standards. But when I think of my work out in the world, written and published, I like to imagine it’s being read by some stranger somewhere who doesn’t have anyone around him to talk to about books and writing—maybe a would-be writer, maybe a little lonely, who depends on a certain kind of writing to make him feel more comfortable in the world. ↗

— Don DeLillo

#loneliness #reader #readership #imagination

And if I'm alone in bed, I will go to the window, look up at the sky, and feel certain that loneliness is a lie, because the Universe is there to keep me company. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#loneliness #universe #inspirational

I think we are and will always be lonely people in a lonely world under lonely stars. We can never starve our loneliness. We can only hope that by the company of others, it doesn't devour us. ↗

— Christopher Poindexter

#hope #loneliness #love #universe #friendship

I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason. It has been the desperate attempt to escape from torturing memories, from a sense of insupportable loneliness and a dread of some strange impending doom. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#alchohol #drinking #drugs #loneliness #melancholy

The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#life

There’s a loneliness that only exists in one’s mind. The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is blink. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#fitzgerald #loneliness #scott #life

On this road there are no godspoke men. They are gone and I am left and they have taken with them the world. ↗

— Cormac McCarthy

#life #loneliness #life