“I could tell you it’s the heart, but what is really killing him is loneliness. Memories are worse than bullets.”— Carlos Ruiz Zafon, amazon.com
“I could tell you it’s the heart, but what is really killing him is loneliness. Memories are worse than bullets.”— Carlos Ruiz Zafon, amazon.com
“I don’t want to be so scared all the time. So alone. I want to believe something can be worth it. Worth the pain. Worth the risk.”— Hannah Harrington, amazon.com
“In loneliness, the lonely one eats himself; in a crowd, the many eat him. Now choose.”— Friedrich Nietzsche, amazon.com
“I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.”— Jorge Luis Borges, www-ccs.cs.umass.edu
“Your only problem, perhaps, is that you scream without letting yourself cry.”— Friedrich Nietzsche, amazon.com
“Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.”— Henry Rollins, goodreads.com
“And if you couldn’t be loved, the next best thing was to be left alone.”— L. M. Montgomery, amazon.com
“Maybe I was destined to forever fall in love with people I couldn’t have. Maybe there’s a whole assortment of impossible people waiting for me to find them. Waiting to make me feel the same impossibility over and over again.”— Carol Rifka Brunt, amazon.com
“Fiction is one of the few experiences where loneliness can be both confronted and relieved. Drugs, movies where stuff blows up, loud parties — all these chase away loneliness by making me forget…I live in a one-by-one box of bone no other party can penetrate or know. Fiction, poetry, music, really d…”— David Foster Wallace, goodreads.com
“Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life’s cruelest irony.”— Douglas Coupland, amazon.com
“I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape—the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn’t show.”— Andrew Wyeth, amazon.com
“We're alone, but we are capable of communicating to one another both our loneliness and our desire to break through it. You say, 'I'm alone.' Someone answers, 'I'm alone too.' There's a shift in the scale of power. A bridge is thrown between the two abysses.”— Elie Wiesel, amazon.com