#loneliness

love is blind.. i admit it ~ ↗

— Vanilla Ais

#loneliness #love #love-hurts #sad-but-true #sadness-love

I just...I've fantasized about peace and quiet for so long, dreamt about being left alone...but when the TV was off, and the sun was down...I'm in a full sob right now. I've just never felt so alone, and I couldn't take it. ↗

— Andrea Randall

#love #quiet #love

An emptiness rules at its core, a rottenness, a silence when one of you retires to bed without saying good night, when you eat together without conversation, when the phone's passed wordlessly to the other. An emptiness when every night you lie in the double bed, restlessly awake, astounded at how closely hate can nudge against love, can wind around it sinuously like a cat. An emptiness when you realize that the loneliest you've ever been is within a marriage, as a wife. ↗

— Nikki Gemmell

#marriage #love

My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues. ↗

— Kahlil Gibran

#men

Solitude is fine but you need someone to tell that solitude is fine. ↗

— Honoré de Balzac

#society #solitude #society

Throwing herself into learning helped Miri ignore the painful chill of solitude around her. ↗

— Shannon Hale

#learning #loneliness #school #education

Loneliness is a good education. You learn the things no crowds can teach and you discover the things no crowds can give. ↗

— Mehmet Murat ildan

#education

Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying. ↗

— Arthur C. Clarke

#life #loneliness #qotd #sense-of-wonder #universe

Given enough time, you could convince yourself that loneliness was something better, that it was solitude, the ideal condition for reflection, even a kind of freedom. Once you were thus convinced, you were foolish to open the door and let anyone in, not all the way in. You risked the hard-won equilibrium, that tranquility that you called peace ↗

— Dean Koontz

#loneliness #peace #reflection #solitude #tranquility

I have no privacy. But I feel so alone. ↗

— Susan Beth Pfeffer

#paradox #privacy #life