Loneliness becomes an acid that eats away at you.
Haruki Murakami, 1Q84.
“If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person, then there's salvation in life. Even if you can't get together with that person.”
“I'm tired of living unable to love anyone. I don't have a single friend - not one. And, worst of all, I can't even love myself. Why is that? Why can't I love myself? It's because I can't love anyon...”
“A person learns how to love himself through the simple acts of loving and being loved by someone else.”
“Life is not like water. Things in life don't necessarily flow over the shortest possible route.”
“It seemed to me that this world has a serious shortage of both logic and kindness.”
“I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.”
“Jobs had begun to drop acid by then, and he turned Brennan on to it as well, in a wheat field just outside Sunnyvale. "It was great," he recalled. "I had been listening to a lot of Bach. All of a s...”
“Anger's like a battery that leaks acid right out of meAnd it starts from the heart 'til it reaches my outer me”
“What people don't understand about depression is how much it hurts. It's like your brain is convinced that it's dying and produces an acid that eats away at you from the inside, until all that's le...”
“Thats love: Two lonely persons keep each other safe and touch each other and talk to each other.”
“Sometimes I get real lonely sleeping with you.”
“We realized that among us, among all the races, we had a staggering fund of knowledge and of techniques - that working together, by putting together all this knowledge and capability, we could arri...”
“It seems to me, Golan, that the advance of civilization is nothing but an exercise in the limiting of privacy.”
“Science fiction at its best should be crazy and dangerous, not sane and safe.”