I don’t know what’s worse: to not know what you are and be happy, or to become what you’ve always wanted to be, and feel alone.
Daniel KeyesTag: happiness philosophy melancholy loneliness psychology
Human beings must love something, and, in the dearth of worthier objects
of affection, I contrived to find a pleasure in loving and cherishing a
faded graven image, shabby as a miniature scarecrow. It puzzles me now
to remember with what absurd sincerity I doated on this little toy, half
fancying it alive and capable of sensation. I could not sleep unless it was
folded in my night-gown; and when it lay there safe and warm, I was
comparatively happy, believing it to be happy likewise.
Tag: love children loneliness
…he is unlike the other customers. They sense it too, and look at him with hard eyes, eyes like little metal studs pinned into the white faces of young men [...] In the hush his entrance creates, the excessive courtesy the weary woman behind the counter shows him amplifies his strangeness. He orders coffee quietly and studies the rim of the cup to steady the sliding in his stomach. He had thought, he had read, that from shore to shore all America was the same. He wonders, Is it just these people I’m outside or is it all America?
John UpdikeTag: inspirational america loneliness thought isolation strangeness outside rabbit angstrom updike
To be alone is to be different, to be different is to be alone.
Suzanne GordonTag: individuality philosophy loneliness different
Depression on my left, Loneliness on my right. They don't need to show me thier badges. I know these guys very well.
Elizabeth GilbertTag: loneliness depression
Thirsty for attention is a cry of loneliness.
Toba BetaTag: loneliness cry thirsty-for-attention
Know that you will eventually have to leave everything behind; the writing will demand it of you.
Natalie GoldbergTag: writing solitude loneliness
For those who know the value of and exquisite taste of solitary freedom (for one is only free when alone), the act of leaving is the bravest and most beautiful of all.
Isabelle EberhardtTag: inspirational freedom solitude loneliness bravery
The loneliness you feel with another person, the wrong person, is the loneliest of all.
Deb CalettiTag: people loneliness lonely feel
The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!
Edith WhartonTag: friends kindness family loneliness falsehood pretense insincerity
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