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...it’s not just the person who fills a house, it’s their I’ll be back later!s, their toothbrushes a...

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Teddy wondered, and not for the first time, not by a long shot, if this was the day that missing her...

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Many people seek fellowship because they are afraid to be alone...let him who cannot be alone beware...

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The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself.

The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all.

Oh, the places you'll go! There is fun to be done!There are points to be scored. There are games to ...

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All alone! Whether you like it or not, alone is something you'll be quite a lot!

I was lonelier than I should be, for a woman in love, or half in love.

I suppose there has been nothing like the airports since the age of the stage-stops - nothing quite ...

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It was lonely for a day or so until one morning some man , more recently arrived than I, stopped me ...

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Many times he had tried unsuccessfully to let go his hold on her. They had many fine times together,...

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He was in love with every pretty woman he saw now, their forms at a distance, their shadows on the w...

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She was overstrained with grief and loneliness: almost any shoulder would have done as well.

Actually, my mother and Alfie came for three weeks' Christmas vacation and stayed for 21 years. I gu...

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Don't think you can frighten me by telling me that I am alone. France is alone. God is alone. And th...

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The church grew very lonely about him, and he began to feel like a child whose mother has forsaken i...

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George MacDonaldAt the Back of the North Wind

The modern age, with its growing world-alienation, has led to a situation where man, wherever he goe...

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There was something odd for him about not feeling lonely. The very fact that he had ceased to be lon...

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When I look back at myself at age twenty, what I remember most is being alone and lonely. I had no g...

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Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but I feel more lonely in a crowed room with boring people ...

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Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but i feel more lonely in a crowded room with boring people...

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They left like you knew they would. They went away and you fell like a stone. All the way to the bot...

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We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and—in spite of True Romance magazines—we shall all someday...

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Hunter S. ThompsonThe Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman

... I was feeling so depressed I didn't even think. That's the whole trouble. When you're feeling ve...

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There was no waking from this nightmare, no comforting whisper in the dark that he was safe really, ...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.

He takes a few dazed steps, the waiters turn out the lights and he slips into unconsciousness: when ...

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It's because she doesn't love being lonely. When a girl loses her virginity, though, it may hurt, bu...

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It's because she doesn't love being lonely. When a girl loses her virginity, though, it may hurt, bu...

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Thus it had come about that she had read far more fiction, and far more poetry, those two sanctuarie...

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John FowlesThe French Lieutenant's Woman

I hate that. I hate kids like that so fugging much.

Tore up my heart and shut it down. Nothing to do, nowhere to be. A simple little kind of free. Nothi...

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John MayerJohn Mayer - Battle Studies

This is not to say, there never comes a day I'll take my chances and start again. And when I look be...

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John MayerJohn Mayer - Battle Studies

Please try not to need me. That’s the worst bait of all to a lonely man.

We all have times when we go home at night and pull out our hair and feel misunderstood and lonely a...

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It's part of a writer's profession, as it's part of a spy's profession, to prey on the community to ...

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The problem with making a virtual world of oneself is akin to the problem with projecting ourselves ...

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And if the world refused to square with his version of reality then it was necessarily an uncaring w...

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Nobody would have anything to do with him. He began to drop things and to trip. He had a shy and hop...

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The snow itself is lonely or, if you prefer, self-sufficient. There is no other time when the whole ...

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The lonely wanderer, who watches by the seashore the waves that roll between him and his home, talks...

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If I am a legend, then why am I so lonely?

People who do a job that claims to be creative have to be alone to recharge their batteries. You can...

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Experiencing those moments of being alone... is a very, very weird flooring and exposing position to...

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They are the only people in the world who I can truly trust and rely on. Touring gets really lonely....

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I have the best roommates in the world! It creates a fun sense of family... and that's really import...

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If you didn't understand the need for friendship or love, could you be lonely?

Miss Abigail, I want to be an author because writers know when a person is lonely. I mean, when Moll...

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Do you ever feel that way?""Lonely?"I search for the words. "Restless. As if you haven't really met ...

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I feel sorry for anyone who is in a place where he feels strange and stupid.

Long after the other voices had dropped away, Sam kept howling, very soft and slow.When he finally f...

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Having someone wonder where you are when you don't come home at night is a very old human need.

He says he’s lonely, horribly lonely because of this love he feels for her. She says she’s lonely to...

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Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and today -- all without seeing him. It is a long time to be alone; st...

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To share is precious, pure and fair.Don't play with something you should cherish for life. Don't you...

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Unless we love and are loved, each of us is alone, each of us is deeply lonely.

Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have receiv...

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It is true that when you're in the White House alone, it is a lonely place. Big and lonely.

You're only lonely if you're not there for you.

At least I rescued your poor hot dog.

We're going to meet a lot of lonely people in the next week and the next month and the next year. An...

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I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read like coded messages passin...

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Where do you go when you're lonely?Where do you go when you're blue?Where do you go when you're lone...

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Such people, while useful, even agreeable, to others, are, if truth be told, frequently unhappy–lone...

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Ryszard KapuścińskiTravels with Herodotus

All I'd ever thought I wanted was to be left alone. Until I was.

Together, we looked down at the tiny house, the sole thing on this vast, flat surface. Like the only...

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Sarah DessenWhat Happened to Goodbye

Success is nothing if you don't have the right people to share it with you're just gonna end up lone...

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Writing is a lonely business.

...very lonely and, often, very unhappy, with the poignant misery that comes to lonely people who lo...

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Shirley JacksonJust an Ordinary Day: The Uncollected Stories

People who are all alone have every right to be friends with one another.("The Honeymoon Of Mrs. Smi...

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Shirley JacksonJust an Ordinary Day: The Uncollected Stories

...very lonely and, often, very unhappy, with the poignant misery that comes to lonely people who lo...

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Shirley JacksonJust an Ordinary Day: The Uncollected Stories

People who are all alone have every right to be friends with one another.("The Honeymoon Of Mrs. Smi...

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Shirley JacksonJust an Ordinary Day: The Uncollected Stories

...very lonely and, often, very unhappy, with the poignant misery that comes to lonely people who lo...

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Shirley Jackson (physicist)Just an Ordinary Day: The Uncollected Stories

People who are all alone have every right to be friends with one another.("The Honeymoon Of Mrs. Smi...

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Shirley Jackson (physicist)Just an Ordinary Day: The Uncollected Stories

...very lonely and, often, very unhappy, with the poignant misery that comes to lonely people who lo...

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Picture of Shirley Jackson (physicist)
Shirley Jackson (physicist)Just an Ordinary Day: The Uncollected Stories

People who are all alone have every right to be friends with one another.("The Honeymoon Of Mrs. Smi...

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Shirley Jackson (physicist)Just an Ordinary Day: The Uncollected Stories

Bill Hodges is her touchstone, the way she measures her ability to interact with the world. Which is...

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If someone had asked him, “Ben, are you lonely? , ” he would have looked at that someone with real s...

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If someone had asked him, “Ben, are you lonely? , ” he would have looked at that someone with real s...

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The exhilaration was hard to explain. It was a lonely feeling — a somehow melancholy feeling. He was...

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Lying in the bed that had once held two, Lisey thought alone never felt more lonely than when you wo...

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She was smart and terribly determined, this girl-her will was pure steel, through and through-but sh...

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Unpopular, lonely and loving, Elinor need not trouble, For if she were not so loving, She would not ...

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Because it doesn't matter anymore, and because I'm so desperately lonely I can't stand it.

People in this world of superficial communication find themselves isolated and lonely and have diffi...

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No day shall erase you from the memory of time

Loneliness wasn't just a state of mind, was it? It was tactile. She could feel it. It was a sixth se...

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Loneliness wasn't just a state of mind, was it? It was tactile. She could feel it. It was a sixth se...

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I have so many different personalities in me and I still feel lonely.

It's lonely. That's why, in many ways, the CIA is the world's biggest dating agency, I think. I imag...

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I feel the monster of grief again, writhing in the empty space where my heart and stomach used to be...

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he began to feel that she was very lonely indeed. “If he’d been here,” she said, “those cowards woul...

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Writing is such a lonely work that I try to keep myself cheered up.

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William ZinsserOn Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction

As a person, I was born to give out my opinions. By giving out my opinions, I realize who I am. As l...

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It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.

This sometimes happened: from time to time, Dantès, driven out of solitude into the world, felt an i...

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For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that t...

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Her voice is filled with distant sonorities, like reverberations in a cave: now you are at the place...

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I remember how being young and black and gay and lonely felt. A lot of it was fine, feeling I had th...

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