Because what's worse than knowing you want something, besides knowing you can never have it?

James Patterson

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We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.

Henry David Thoreau

Sometimes you need to take a break from everyone and spend time alone, to experience, appreciate and love yourself.

At the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep and powerful yearning for union with one's lost self.

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

Friedrich Nietzsche

It is when we are alone that we receive the opportunity to build a relationship with who we truly are.

Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated.

Alphonse De Lamartine

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