There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.

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But even so, every now and then I would feel a violent stab of loneliness. The very water I drink, the very air I breathe, would feel like long, sharp needles. The pages of a book in my hands would take on the threatening metallic gleam of razor blades. I could hear the roots of loneliness creeping through me when the world was hushed at four o'clock in the morning.

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The deepest need of the human being is to overcome our separateness, to leave the prison of our loneliness.

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The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely. ― Charlotte Brontë

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If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.

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Almost without exception alcoholics are tortured by loneliness.

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You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her. Never underestimate the power of love. The way to love anything is to realize it may be lost. The heart has its reasons that reason does not know at all. Music is love in search of a word. There is pleasure in the pathless woods; there is a rapture on the lonely shore; There is society, where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar.

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Warmth, kindness, and friendship are the most yearned for commodities in the world. The person who can provide them will never be lonely.

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

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All great and precious things are lonely. ― John Steinbeck

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