- "Loneliness is black coffee and late-night television; solitude is herb tea and soft music. Solitude, quality solitude, is an assertion of self-worth, because only in the stillness can we hear the truth of our own unique voices." - Pearl Cleage
- “We only write about two feelings: one is the first day of summer when you and all of your friends are standing on the edge of a cliff watching the sun set and being overcome with all of your hopes and dreams at once. The other is when you’re walking alone in the rain and realize you will be alone forever.” - The Drums
- “There’s a big difference between wanting to die and not wanting to live. When you want to die, you at least have a goal. When you don’t want to live, you’re really just empty.” - Marilyn Manson
- “Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.” - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- "Among other things, you'll find that you're not the first person who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behavior. You're by no means alone on that score, you'll be excited and stimulated to know. Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles. You'll learn from them - if you want to. Just as someday, if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It's a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn't education. It's history. It's poetry." - J.D. Salinger
- "The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; Who can know it?" - Jeremiah 17:9
- "Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.” - Rainer Maria Rilke
- "A word after a word after a word is power" - Margaret Atwood
- “So you plant your own garden and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers” - Jorge Luis Borges
- "We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.” - Carson McCullers
- “There are 7 billion people on this planet who I have not met, and 195 countries I have not visited. Yet I am stuck in this insignificant town, Being pressured into making decisions about my future, When I barely even know who I am” - Unknown
- "A woman is not written in braille, you don't have to touch her to know her." - Unknown
- “My alone feels so good, I'll only have you if you're sweeter than my solitude.” - Warsan Shire
- "In this world, you must be oh so smart, or oh so pleasant. Well, for years I was smart. I recommend pleasant." - Harvey(1950)
- “To consider the Earth the only populated world in infinite space is as absurd to assert that in an entire field sown with millet only one grain will grow" - Metrodorus of Chios
- "Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness. Take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree, you still believe it to be a beautiful place." Iain Thomas
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