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LONELINESS
[ Also see Alone Companionship Solitude ]

You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even going and coming.
      - Emily Carr,
        Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr

To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.
      - Charles Caleb Colton

We live, as we dream--alone.
      - Joseph Conrad (Teodor Josef Konrad Korzeniowski),
        Heart of Darkness (ch. 1)

Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate.
      - Germaine Greer

You'll never walk alone.
      - Oscar Hammerstein II,
        title of a song in "Carousel"

I see you, now that you aren't here. Before
  You were and I saw nothing. I shut my eyes.
      - Randall Jarrell, A Summer Night

We must relearn to be alone.
      - Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Gift from the Sea   BUY VARYING HARE USED BOOK  

The loneliest woman in the world is the woman without a close woman friend.
      - Toni Morrison

A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man--the one he used to be.
      - Cesare Pavese

To be adult is to be alone.
      - Jean Rostand

We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.
      - Albert Schweitzer

Now I am going back
  And I have ripped my hand
    From your hand as I said I would
      And I have made it this far
        as I said I would
          and I am on the top deck now
            holding my wallet, my cigarettes
              and my car keys
                at 2 o'clock on a Tuesday
                  in August of 1960.
      - Anne Sexton,
        Letter Written on a Ferry While Crossing Long Island Sound

The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted, uncared for and deserted by everybody.
      - Mother Teresa, in The Observer

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