I think it takes an amazing amount of energy to convince oneself that the Forever Person isn't just around the corner. In the end I believe we never do convince ourselves. I know that I found it increasingly hard to maintain the pose of emotional self-sufficiency lying on my bed and sitting at my desk, watching the gulls cartwheeling in the clouds over the bridges, cradling myself in my own arms, breathing warm chocolate-and-vodka breath on a rose I had found on a street corner, trying to force it to bloom.
Douglas CouplandTag: love melancholy loneliness alcohol
Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books written because authors couldn't find anyone to talk to.
Alain de BottonTag: books loneliness booksellers
Yes, after all, this by now was his customary loneliness: there was little else he desired for the present than the hospitality of the dark.
Walter de la MareTag: loneliness dark
My friends, tonight we bring you something entirely different. Something special. The poets will rest, the sonnets will be silent, and what words of love there are will not be spoken. Tonight, my friends, and I can hear you out there, sitting alone, like me, in your chairs, your beds, driving down an empty street with no one but me to listen to your weeping; tonight, I'm going to bring you Armageddon.
Charles GrantTag: loneliness armageddon raven
What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
George EliotTag: loneliness distrust
Jamie enjoyed solitude, but loneliness was a constant ache.
Sidney SheldonTag: solitude loneliness jamie
Loneliness is the prison of the human spirit. When we are lonely, we pace back and forth in small, shut-in worlds.
John Joseph PowellTag: loneliness
She understood how a world jammed with phones, email, and faxes could still leave you feeling utterly alone.
Jodi PicoultTag: loneliness
Loneliness Ends With Love
Al LernerTag: love loneliness elegy resolution
That was the day my whole world went black. Air looked black. Sun looked black. I laid up in bed and stared at the black walls of my house….Took three months before I even looked out the window, see the world still there. I was surprised to see the world didn’t stop.
Kathryn StockettTag: sadness loneliness tragedy
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