#lonely

When everything is lonely I can be my best friend. ↗

— Conor Oberst

#best friend #everything #friend #i #i can

You're only lonely if you're not there for you. ↗

— Phil McGraw

#only #you

There's no such thing as a crowded battlefield. Battlefields are lonely places. ↗

— Alfred M. Gray

#battlefields #crowded #lonely #places #such

The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely. ↗

— Lorraine Hansberry

#exceptional #inevitably #lonely #make #makes

... even though it was beautiful and comfortable, and even though it was the world, it was also a little bit boring. No, wait. Maybe boring isn’t the right word. What’s the word I’m wanting here? Lonely. That’s it. It was a little bit lonely. ↗

— Catherine Ryan Hyde

#boring #comfortable #lonely #beauty

She was smart and terribly determined, this girl-her will was pure steel, through and through-but she was as human as anyone else. She was lonely, too. Lonely in a way that perhaps only single girls fresh from small Midwestern towns know. Homesickness is not always a vague, nostalgic, almost beautiful emotion, although that is somehow the way we always seem to picture it in our mind. It can be a terribly keen blade, not just a sickness in metaphor but in fact as well. It can change the way one looks at the world; the faces one sees in the street look not just indifferent but ugly....perhaps even malignant. Homesickness is a real sickness- the ache of the uprooted plant. ↗

— Stephen King

#determined #homesickness #lonely #single #beauty

A dead dog is more quiet than a house on the steppes, a chair in a empty room. ↗

— Per Petterson

#dogs #emptyness #lonely #sad #silence

A lonely person on a college campus is never more than a few minutes and a bad decision from company. ↗

— Thomm Quackenbush

#college #lonely #dreams

She had to go," said Rose. "It was because of her angel," said Indigo. "And because of Granddad," added Caddy. "And because of her nose stud." "And because her name isn't on the color chart." "She's lonely," said Rose. "That's why. ↗

— Hilary McKay

#leaving #lonely #sad #family

Don’t try to hog loneliness and keep it all to yourself. Share it with a special someone.
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— Jarod Kintz

#alone #bizarre #funny #hog #humor