The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness.

Norman Cousins

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I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.

Charlotte Brontë

Learn to be alone and to like it. There is nothing more empowering or freeing than learning to like your own company.

People think being alone makes you lonely, but I don't think that's true. Being surrounded by the wrong people is the loneliest thing in the world.

I thought that jealousy was an idea. It isn't. It's a pain. But I didn't feel as they do in a Broadway melodrama. I didn't want to kill anybody. I just wanted to die.

I'm strong because I was lonely.

We're all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding.

Rudyard Kipling

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