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Quotes About Aloneness

I feel like I'm dropping such a long way down again." "I seem to be dropping into a cold dark wet place, where no one's been before and noone can every follow. There's no future there; just a past that sometimes fools you into thinking it's the future. It's the most alone place you can ever be and, when you go there, you not only cease to exist in real life, you also cease to exist in their consciousness and in their memories.
~ John Marsden
Also, she doesn't want to hear anyone else's inspiring story about a sister-in-law who went through exactly the same thing and is now running ultramarathons. Celeste doesn't mean to be ungenerous in her thoughts, but she has come to the chilling conclusion that we are all alone in our bodies. Irrefutably, immutably alone. And hence, no one's story offers hope.
~ Elin Hilderbrand
but she has come to the chilling conclusion that we are all alone in our bodies. Irrefutably, immutably alone.
~ Elin Hilderbrand
She is covered in sand, only on her right side. There are no clouds. She is alone. Seonag is used to being alone, even when she is surrounded by people.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Perhaps, in a world too full of people, she was the one too many.
~ Elizabeth Knox
I have always thought that if there was a big corkboard and on that board was a pin for every person who ever lived, there would be no pin for me. I feel invisible is what I mean.
~ Elizabeth Strout
My whole childhood was a lockdown. I never saw anyone or went anywhere.
~ Elizabeth Strout
I live an isolated life, and I rarely meet others.
~ Varg Vikernes
I don't particularly want to meet anyone. I'm quite happy by myself. Or at least, I was, back home.
~ Garth Nix
The dysphorias - the bitter fruits of the narcissist's impossible demands of himself - are painful. Gradually the narcissist learns to avoid them by eschewing a structured narrative altogether… The narcissist pays a heavy price for accommodating his dysfunctional narratives: emptiness; existential aloneness .. meaninglessness. This fuels his envy and the resulting rage.
~ Sam Vaknin
Alone, alone, all, all alone;Alone on a wide, wide sea.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Everything that was his was now no one's; everything he'd seen and felt and knew was now gone.
~ Sara Gran
No one will save you," Silette said from his rooftop. "No one will come. You are alone in your search; no friend, no lover, no God from above will come to your aid. Your mysteries are yours alone.
~ Sara Gran
Nothing is quite as bad as being without privacy and lonely at the same time.
~ Alexander Theroux
All my houses are isolated. Many is the time I just stay home alone.
~ Jimmy Page
I don't remember spending any time with anybody on set. I don't spend a lot of time with people.
~ Robert Redford
The stars are dead. The animals will not look: We are left alone with our day, and the time is short, and History to the defeated May say Alas but cannot help nor pardon.
~ W. H. Auden
Fui solo. Poi la solitudine mi spaventò. Non si è mai del tutto soli: disgraziatamente si è sempre con se stessi.
~ Marguerite Yourcenar
She cannot return your love. She does not live in our world. She does not even live in the world of animals. She lives on a different star, absolutely alone.
~ Mario Puzo
How often did he feel it now, this gorgeous, furtive seclusion? In the bath sometimes, maybe. Though Jean failed to understand his need for periodic isolation and regularly dragged him back to earth mid-soak by hammering on the locked door in search of bleach or dental floss.
~ Mark Haddon
Carente de contacto con el mundo exterior, era un universo en sí misma.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
Margaret stood all alone at her first witch-burning. She had on her new blue cap and her sister's shawl, and she stood by herself, waiting. She had long ago given up on finding her sister and brother-in-law in the crowd, and was now content to watch alone. She felt a very pleasant fear and a crying excitement over the burning; she had lived all her life in the country and now, staying with her sister in the city, she was being introduced to the customs of society.
~ Shirley Jackson
No one lives any nearer than the town. No one else will come any nearer than that.
~ Shirley Jackson
Alone: for the first time I understood the terrible significance of that word. Alone without a witness, without anyone to speak to, without refuge. The breath in my body, the blood in my veins, all this hurly-burly in my head existed for nobody.
~ Simone de Beauvoir