- "when one is alone and lonely, the body gladly lingers in the wind or the rain, or splashes into the cold river, or pushes through the ice-crusted snow. anything that touches." mary oliver, leaves and blossoms along the way
- "i'm sorry i wasn't wiser sooner. i'm sorry i ever spoke of myself as lonely." mary oliver, "someday" from red bird
- "since i always fail to communicate, to understand, to love and to be loved, and every failure deepens my solitude, since i cannot escape the objectivity crushing me nor the subjectivity expelling me, since i cannot rise to a state of being nor collapse into nothingness... i have to listen more than ever, i have to look around me, at the world, my fellow creature, my brother." 2 or 3 things i know about her, (1967)
- "you didn't want things to be right. you wanted to be alone. you wanted to be hurt. you think you have to be miserable alone, so everyone will know you're too noble to put your misery on them. but you want us to know you're miserable. your favorite thing in the world is to be too hurt for anyone to help." seth dickinson, the monster baru cormorant
- "why do people have to be this lonely? what's the point of it all? millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. why? was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?" haruki murakami, sputnik sweetheart
- "to tell you the truth, i can't eat alone. neither sleep alone, nor take the bus alone, nor smoke alone. in fact, i can't do anything by myself. i only pretend." aloners, (2021)
- "could it be that i heard it more this way: time passes, but not so aggressively that anyone notices? or even: time passes, but not for me?" joan didion, blue nights (2011)
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