loneliness Quotes

“He distrusted her affection; and what loneliness is more lonely than distrust?”

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

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“I can live alone, if self-respect, and circumstances require me so to do. I need not sell my soul to buy bliss. I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all extraneous delights should be withheld, or offered only at a...”

― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

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“Crying can bring relief, as long as you don't cry alone.”

― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

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“Being in a minority, even a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.”

― George Orwell, 1984

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“A multitude of people, and yet a solitude!”

― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

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“Nobody likes being alone that much. I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all. It just leads to disappointment.”

― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

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“And now we are all scattered, and for many a long day loneliness will sit over our roofs with brooding wings.”

― Bram Stoker, Dracula

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“I am alone in the midst of these happy, reasonable voices. All these creatures spend their time explaining, realizing happily that they agree with each other. In Heaven’s name, why is it so important to think the same things all together.”

― Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

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“There is something demoralizing about watching two people get more and more crazy about each other, especially when you are the only extra person in the room.”

― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

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“More and more I feel like a letter—deposited here, collected there. But a letter addressed to no one.”

― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

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