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Posts tagged “lonely”

What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.

Kurt Vonnegut
“Thoughts of a Free Thinker,” Palm Sunday
Commencement address, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
26 May 1974

The only thing worse than being lonely is other people knowing you’re lonely.
People actually think I have some kind of fantastic imagination. I think it’s very lonesome.

Jude Quinn
I’m Not There

Sometimes I think people don’t understand how lonely it is to be a kid, like you don’t matter.

Clementine Kruczynski
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

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