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Loneliness Quotes and Quotations
 Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.  To be adult is to be alone (etre adulte, c'est etre seul). What loneliness is more lonely than distrust. Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man. One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul, and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. So lonely 'twas that God himself scarce seemed there to be. The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters. Man's loneliness is but his fear of life. No man is an Island intire of it self; every man is a peece of the Continent, a part of the maine; if a Clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the lesse, as well as if a Promontorie were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or thine own were. Any man's death diminishes me because I am involved in Mankinde, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee. Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion. Little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love. Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling into at night. I miss you like hell. The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness. Language has created the word 'loneliness' to express the pain of being alone, and the word 'solitude' to express the glory of being alone. If I'm such a legend, then why am I so lonely? Let me tell you, legends are all very well if you've got somebody around who loves you. Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty. 
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