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“If you decide to take somebody on, don’t look behind you, because there won’t be anybody there. You’ll be all alone.”
“We read to know we’re not alone. We read because we are alone. We read and we are not alone. We are not alone.”
“Once upon a time there was a poor child with no father and no mother everything was deadand no one was left in the whole world.Everything was deadand it went and searched day and night And since no...”
“I'm surrounded by people and feel alone”
“Then suddenly you’re left all alonewith your body that can’t love youand your will that can’t save you.”
“Life is so full of rough edges - small tasks and expectations that scratch you bloody and remind you that you're naked and alone.”
“Two things compel me to move. First, the fear of being alone. I don’t want to be alone here. Second, the aching need to beat Blake in any way.”
“That was the worst truth of all: alone. The word was a kind of death.”
“We were all of us alone, kept wrapped up tight by our sins.”
“No matter how close people get, they never reach each other. Including us now. Even now, there's a place where each of us is alone.”
“They were almost never alone, and now that they almost-practically were, he felt kind of frantic for her attention.”
“The group of people in front of her was jovial and paid her no attention. The group behind was much the same. She was alone without being alone.”
“He had thrown himself away, he had lost interest in everything, and life, falling in with his feelings, had demanded nothing of him. He had lived as an outsider, an idler and onlooker, well liked i...”
“We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for a moment that we’re not alone.”
“All I knew now was that nothing lasted forever, not even a friendship, and that being "different" felt the same as being alone.”
“alone, condemned, deserted, as those who are about to die are alone, there was a luxury in it, an isolation full of sublimity; a freedom which the attached can never know”
“Leave me alone in the long desert forever, and I won’t give up on my dreams.”
“I felt my eyes widen slightly, feeling like the kid of the group who didn’t understand anything and was a pain to have around.”
“And I think, "I'm so fucking lonely". I go home and cry for a while. I am almost 32. That's not old especially in New York. But the fact is it has been years since I even liked someone. So how like...”
“I don't mind being alone either. The only problem is that if you're always alone, you get lonely.”