#loneliness

That's what Jamie didn't understand: it was never just sex. Even the fastest, dirtiest, most impersonal screw was about more than sex. It was about connection. It was about looking at another human being and seeing your own loneliness and neediness reflected back. It was recognising that together you had the power to temporarily banish that sense of isolation. It was about experiencing what it was to be human at the basest, most instinctive level. How could that be described as just anything? ↗

— Emily Maguire

#loneliness #sex #connection

DeWitt: Loneliness leads to nothing good, only detachment. And sometimes the people who most need to reach out are the people least capable of it. ↗

— Jane Espenson

#dollhouse #helplessness #loneliness #connection

The pain of being alone is completely out of this world, isn't it? I don't know why, but I understand your feelings so much, it actually hurts. ↗

— Masashi Kishimoto

#naruto #understanding #loneliness

Loneliness in a crowd of people was the worst kind of loneliness, but she couldn't help it. ↗

— Lauren Kate

#loneliness

Depression on my left, Loneliness on my right. They don't need to show me thier badges. I know these guys very well. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#loneliness #loneliness

We walk alone through this world, but if we're lucky, we have a moment of belonging to something, to someone, that sustains us through a lifetime of loneliness. ↗

— Paullina Simons

#tatiana-alexander #tatiana-metanova #loneliness

I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#loneliness

If you smile when you are alone, then you really mean it. ↗

— Andy Rooney

#meaning #smile #smiles #loneliness

I could tell you it's the heart, but what is really killing him is loneliness. Memories are worse than bullets. ↗

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

#loneliness

Then stirs the feeling infinite, so felt In solitude, where we are least alone. ↗