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Quotes About Aloneness

Ben açken kimsenin umurunda deÄŸildim, ünlü olunca herkes kudurmuÅŸcas?na beni yemeÄŸe davet ediyor.
~ Jack London
I am really not the relationship type.
~ Scott Evans
A great hope gets crushed every time someone reminds us that happiness can be neither assumed nor earned; that we are all prisoners of our own flawed brains; that the ultimate aloneness in each of us is, finally, inviolable.
~ Andrew Solomon
In solitude, where we are least alone.
~ Lord Byron
But Ruby understands now, this inclination. This desire to slip away. To seclude herself. She understands how it feels to be an island, separate from everyone else, surrounded by nothing but water. Even when she is with people (at school, at Izzy's house, at the pool), she is aware of how alone she is. Nobody can reach her, not really. She and her mother are more similar than different, but she doesn't know how to tell her mom this. What words might explain she understands.
~ T. Greenwood
What is hell? Hell is oneself. Hell is alone, the other figures in it Merely projections. There is nothing to escape from And nothing to escape to. One is always alone.
~ T.S. Eliot
Ultimately...we're all alone in this world
~ Takehiko Inoue
Sarte was right, Hell is other people
~ Tana French
Do you sometimes look up from the computer and look around the room and know you are alone, I mean really know it, then feel scared ?
~ Tao Lin
my favourite emotions include 'brief calmness in good weather' and 'i am the only person alive
~ Tao Lin
The irony is that the more specific you are in the portrayal of character, the more like other people you are. In the same way, the more you think about how alone you are in this life, you realise how much a brother and sister everyone else is.
~ William Hurt
A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Ordinary men hate solitude. But the Master makes use of it, embracing his aloneness, realizing he is one with the whole universe.
~ Laozi
Hackworth was alone and separate from all humanity, a feeling he had grown up with, like a childhood friend living next door.
~ Neal Stephenson
The ice was there. The distance between him and the rest of the world.
~ Christine Feehan
Gone. Gone! GONE! Blackness. Emptiness.
~ Christopher Paolini
Who is this that cometh from Edom? He has trodden the wine-press alone.
~ TS Eliot
There was no police station, no telephone service, no one to hear you scream.
~ Kristin Hannah
Meanwhile I was trying to stave off the ache I'd developed. I noticed it first at the airport, coming home from a trip. There was a crowd on the other side of customs, holding flowers, the little kids dressed up and excited, waiting for their loved ones, who were returning home. I hated walking past that gauntlet of waiting people, because none of them were waiting for me. I stood in the cab line and felt the weight of my aloneness come down on me.
~ Kristin Kimball
It's as if the world is full of honeybees and I'm the only flower" -Elena
~ L.J. Smith
Once upon a time, a little girl was raised by monsters. But angels burned the doorways to their world, and she was all alone.
~ Laini Taylor
Even crushed against his brother in the Tube the average Englishman pretends desperately that he is alone.
~ Germaine Greer
To become imperceptible oneself, to have dismantled love in order to become capable of loving. To have dismantled one's self in order finally to be alone and meet the true double at the other end of the line. A clandestine passenger on a motionless voyage. To become like everybody else; but this, precisely, is a becoming only for one who knows how to be nobody, to no longer be anybody. To paint oneself gray on gray.
~ Gilles Deleuze
The world had gone too quiet and the possibility that she and Lou were the only ones left alive tickled at her brain like the tiny, scuttling legs of a black spider.
~ Gina Ranalli