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Chris McCandless1 quote
Some people feel like they don't deserve love. They walk away quietly into empty spaces, trying to close the gaps of the past. — Chris McCandless · 2007Haruki Murakami1 quote
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 · 1999Marcel Proust1 quote
The bonds between ourselves and another person exist only in our minds. Memory as it grows fainter loosens them, and notwithstanding the illusion by which we want to be duped and which, out of love, friendship, politeness, deference, duty, we dupe other people, we exist alone. Man is the creature who cannot escape from himself, who knows other people only in himself, and when he asserts the contrary, he is lying. — Marcel Proust · 1922Mary Shelley1 quote
Everywhere I see bliss, from which I alone am irrevocably excluded. — Mary Shelley · 1818Mother Teresa1 quote
The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted, uncared for and deserted by everybody. — Mother Teresa · 1971Rabindranath Tagore1 quote
Man goes into the noisy crowd to drown his own clamour of silence. — Rabindranath Tagore · 1916Samuel Taylor Coleridge1 quote
Alone, alone, all, all alone,
Alone on a wide wide sea! — Samuel Taylor Coleridge · 1798Simon & Garfunkel1 quote
Hello darkness, my old friend
I've come to talk with you again. — Simon & Garfunkel · 1964