And even when you’re ready to let go. When you’re ready to break free. When you’re ready to be brand-new. Loneliness is an old friend standing beside you in the mirror, looking you in the eye, challenging you to live your life without it. You can’t find the words to fight yourself, to fight the words screaming that you’re not enough, never enough, never ever enough. Loneliness is a bitter, wretched companion. Sometimes it just won’t let go.
+ depression + loneliness + lonely + alone + isolated + detatched + eating disorders + anorexia + bulimia + eating disorder + fight + enough + good enough + struggle + recovery
Loneliness is a strange sort of thing. It creeps up on you, quiet and still, sits by your side in the dark, strokes your hair as you sleep. It wraps itself around your bones, squeezing so tight you almost can’t breathe. It leaves lies in your heart, lies next to you at night, leeches the light out from every corner. It’s a constant companion, clasping your hand only to yank you down when your struggling to stand up.
+ loneliness + companion + darkness + struggling + depression + eating disorder + isolated + dark + lonely
But we are alone, darling child, terribly, isolated from each other; so fierce is the world’s ridicule we cannot speak or show our tenderness; for us, death is stronger than life, it pulls like a wind through the dark, all our cries burlesqued in joyless laughter; and with the garbage of loneliness stuffed down us until our guts burst bleeding green, we go screaming round the world, dying in our rented rooms, nightmare hotels, eternal homes of the transient heart.
+ loneliness + depression + isolated + alienated + ridicule + world + nigtmare
Individuals who are innately predisposed to introversion tend to defend against shame by internal withdrawal. Relationships are either avoided or abandoned, and the individual may display an oscillating in- and- out pattern with regard to relationships. When an introvert is forced to contend with excessive shame, the typical response is to hide deeper inside. While some innate introverts develop “learned extroversion” in response to shame, usually the self becomes more hidden, shut in, further isolated, increasingly detached from others.
+ shame + introversion + depression + guilt + shame bound + withdrawal + relationships + self + hidden + retreat + isolated + hide + detatched
I knew that others did not appear to feel the way that I did and I secretly wished to share my thoughts to know for sure. I remembering watching others and wondering what made them so different from me.
There is a loneliness in this world so great
that you can see it in the slow movement of
the hands of a clock.
People so tired
mutilated
either by love or no love.
People just are not good to each other
one on one.
The rich are not good to the rich,
the poor are not good to the poor.
We are afraid.
Our educational system tells us
that we can all be
big-ass winners.
It hasn’t told us
about the gutters
or the suicides.
Or the terror of one person
aching in one place
alone
untouched
unspoken to
watering a plant.
+ charles bukowski + genuis + depression + reality + gutters + suicide + school + terror + aching + alone + untouched + neglected + time + love is a dog from hell + loneliness + isolated
Many people need desperately to receive this message: “I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.
+ need + people + message + hear + care + alone + isolated + kurt vonnegut + comforting + thought
It was a source of both terror and comfort to me then that I often seemed invisible- incompletely and minimally existent, in fact. It seemed to me that I made no impact on the world, and that in exchange I was privileged to watch it unaware.
You know what I think? I think that we’re all in our private traps, clamped in them, and none of us can ever get out. We scratch and we claw, but only at the air, only at each other, and for all of it, we never budge an inch.
It was sadness, lostness, and the worst thing about it was the way it seemed like a default- like it was there all the time, and all her other expressions were just an array of masks she used to cover it up.
+ lani taylor + sadness + lost + floating + wandering + lostness + default + depression + alone + lonely + cover up + mask + conceal + hide + expressions + despair + isolated + constant
Now I know what loneliness is, I think. Momentary loneliness, anyway. It comes from a vague core of the self - like a disease of the blood, dispersed throughout the body so that one cannot locate the matrix, the spot of contagion.There is no living being on earth at this moment, except myself. I could walk down the halls, and empty rooms would yawn at me from every side.
+ loneliness + lonely + think + momentary + vague + core + sense of self + empty + emptiness + body + dispersed + locate + matrix + center + human + alone + depression + isolated
Loneliness as a situation can be corrected, but as a state of mind it is an incurable illness.
+ loneliness + illness + state of mind + mindset + inside + feeling + corrected + situation + permanent + incurable + forever + vladimir nabokov + goes away + stays + isolated + empty + lonely
I am more sensitive than other people. Things that other people would not notice awaken a distinct echo in me, and in such moments of lucidity, when I look at myself, I see that I am alone, all alone, all alone.
It always shocked me when I realized that I wasn’t the only person in the world who thought and felt such strange and awful things.
+ shocked + feeling + depression + anxiety + alone + loneliness + eating disorder + isolated + only + person + strange + awful + weird + different
This is the conundrum of the individual confronting masses about which he can’t help knowing more than he’d like to know: I want to be alone, but not too alone. I want to be the same but different.
+ jonathan franzen + how to be alone + alone + lonely + different + same + fit in + isolated + together + relationship + part of + group + masses + individual + struggle + depression + conundrum + know
