- "Every now and then I would feel a violent stab of loneliness. The very water I drink, the very air I breathe, would feel like long, sharp needles. I could hear the roots of loneliness creeping through me when the world was hushed at four o'clock in the morning." Haruki Murakami (The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle)
- "My mother says that pain is hidden in everyone you see. She says try to imagine it like big bunches of flowers that everyone is carrying around with them. Think of your pain like a big bunch of red roses, a beautiful thorn necklace. Everyone has one." Francesca Lia Block (Witch Baby)
- "One need not be a chamber to be haunted, one need not be a house; the brain has corridors surpassing material place." Emily Dickinson (Haunted)
- "One of the deep secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others" Lewis Carroll
- "When I am lonely for boys it’s their bodies I miss. I study their hands lifting the cigarettes in the darkness of the movie theatres, the slope of a shoulder, the angle of a hip. Looking at them sideways, I examine them in different lights. My love for them is visual: that is the part of them I would like to possess. Don’t move, I think. Stay like that, let me have that." Margaret Atwood (Cat's Eye)
- "You know that place between sleeping and awake, that place where you can still remember dreaming? That's where I'll always think of you." J.M. Barrie
- "I always wonder why birds stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on the earth. Then I ask myself the same question." Harun Yahya
- "According to Greek mythology, humans were originally created with four arms, four legs, and a head with two faces. Fearing their power, Zeus split them into two separate parts, condemning them to spend their lives in search of their other halves." Plato's Symposium
- "Our bodies get bigger but our hearts get torn up." Arcade Fire
- "I’m restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.” Anaïs Nin
- "Everything depends on how near you sleep to me." Leonard Cohen
- "Forever is composed of nows." Emily Dickinson
- "Everybody has a secret world inside of them. All of the people of the world, I mean everybody. No matter how dull and boring they are on the outside, inside them they’ve all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds. Not just one world. Hundreds of them. Thousands maybe." Neil Gaiman
- "Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but I feel more lonely in a crowed room with boring people than I feel on my own." Henry Rollins
- "We need enormous pockets, pockets big enough for our families and our friends, and even the people who aren't on our lists, people we've never met but still want to protect. We need pockets for boroughs and for cities, a pocket that could hold the universe." Jonathan Safran Foer
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