there are worse things
than being alone
but it often takes
decades to realize this
and most often when you do
it’s too late
and there’s nothing worse
than too late
Charles Bukowski
Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
Maya Angelou
Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
And for a moment, I understand that I have friends on this lonely path; that sometimes your place is not something you find, but something you have when you need it.
Libba Bray - Rebel Angels
There is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock
Charles Bukowski - Love is a Dog from Hell
there are worse things
than being alone
but it often takes
decades to realize this
and most often when you do
it’s too late
and there’s nothing worse
than too late
Charles Bukowski
All great and precious things are lonely.
John Steinbeck - East of Eden
He had to miss me. It’s not possible for one person to miss another person so much she thinks she might die, and for that other person not to even miss her at all, is it?
Melissa Kantor
Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.
Though she tried to forget it, the nothingness would visit her periodically - on a lonely rainy afternoon, or at dawn when she woke up from a nightmare. What she needed at such times was to be held by someone, anyone.
Loneliness is like starvation: you don’t realize how hungry you are until you begin to eat.
Joyce Carol Oates - Faithless
Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
Maya Angelou
There is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock
Charles Bukowski - Love is a Dog from Hell
All great and precious things are lonely.
John Steinbeck - East of Eden
And for a moment, I understand that I have friends on this lonely path; that sometimes your place is not something you find, but something you have when you need it.
Libba Bray - Rebel Angels