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Quotes About Aloneness

Aloneness is an opportunity, a state brimming with potentiality, with resources for renewed life...In the space of aloneness...a woman is free to admit and act on her own desires. It is where we have the opportunity to discover that we are not a half but a sovereign whole.
~ Florence Falk
I know nothing - nothing in the world - of the hearts of men. I only know that I am alone - horribly alone.
~ Ford Madox Ford
I can be by myself because I'm never lonely, I'm simply alone, living in my heavily populated solitude, a harum-scarum of infinity and eternity, and Infinity and Eternity seem to take a liking to the likes of me.
~ Bohumil Hrabal
Something inside me had dropped away, and nothing came in to fill the cavern.
~ Haruki Murakami
I am nothing. I'm like someone who's been thrown into the ocean at night, floating all alone. I reach out, but no one is there. I call out, but no one answers. I have no connection to anything.
~ Haruki Murakami
I could disappear from the face of the earth, and the world would go on moving without the slightest twinge. Things were tremendously complicated, to be sure, but one thing was clear: no one needed me.
~ Haruki Murakami
Once she was out of the car and gone, my world was suddenly hollow and meaningless.
~ Haruki Murakami
I am here, alone, at the end of the world. I reach out and touch nothing.".
~ Haruki Murakami
Shimamoto had her own little world within her. A world that was for her alone, one I could not enter.
~ Haruki Murakami
One day, I lost sight of her. I happened to glance away for a moment, and when I turned back, she had disappeared.
~ Haruki Murakami
Two people can sleep in the same bed and still be alone when they close their eyes.
~ Haruki Murakami
Even though I might go out on a date with a boy, emotionally I just wouldn't be able to concentrate. I'd be smiling and chatting away, and my mind would be floating around somewhere else, like a balloon with a broken string. I'd be thinking about one unrelated thing after another. I don't know, I guess finally I want to be alone a little while longer. And I want to let my thoughts wander freely.
~ Haruki Murakami
Reality is endlessly cold and lonely.
~ Haruki Murakami
She is overtaken by a sensation of unbeing. There is no other word for it.
~ Michael Cunningham
The idea of a woman mailing a postcard as part of a promise to two children far away indicated an expansiveness as well as aloneness, a hidden need in her. It signalled two very different states.
~ Michael Ondaatje
İnsanoÄŸlunun tüm mutsuzluÄŸu tek ba??na sessizce bir odada oturamamaktan kaynaklan?r.
~ Blaise Pascal
I can be by myself because I'm never lonely; I'm simply alone, living in my heavily populated solitude, a harum-scarum of infinity and eternity, and Infinity and Eternity seem to take a liking to the likes of me.
~ Bohumil Hrabal
If I leave, then the House will have no Inhabitant and how will I bear the thought of it Empty? Yet the simple fact is that if I remain in these Halls I will be alone.
~ Susanna Clarke
all I get the sense that she is alone, perhaps by choice or perhaps because no one else was courageous enough to follow her into the darkness.
~ Susanna Clarke
And in the end, I lost him. I did it on purpose, the way Garance lost Baptiste in the crowd. I needed to be alone, I felt. I wanted to be going on alone to my future.
~ Susanna Kaysen
I was happiest when I was alone with her. She revitalized me, made me anticipate living in a way I never had before. I
~ Sylvia Day
I wanted to be where nobody I knew could ever come.
~ Sylvia Plath
But you will never take a walk. You will never be alone. And you hate him because he has deprived you of that: - - walks and aloneness. And you hate him because he is a boy.
~ Sylvia Plath
Hell is oneself, Hell is alone, the other figures in it merely projections
~ T.S. Eliot