CURATED COLLECTION

Dealing With Loneliness

Loneliness is one of the most universal human experiences — and one of the least spoken about honestly.

38 quotes found

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Midway upon the journey of our life I found myself within a forest dark.

—Dante AlighieriPoet & Author

Medieval ERA • Southern Europe

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The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.

—Blaise PascalMathematician, Physicist & Philosopher

Renaissance ERA • Western Europe

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The moon has set and the Pleiades. It is midnight. Time passes. I lie alone.

—SapphoLyric Poet

Ancient World ERA • Southern Europe

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Reality bores me. I prefer my dreams.

—María Luisa BombalNovelist & Writer

Early Modern ERA • Latin America

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She was full of a past the future could not reach.

—María Luisa BombalNovelist & Writer

Early Modern ERA • Latin America

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Bright moonlight before my bed: I thought it was frost on the ground.

—Li BaiPoet

Medieval ERA • East Asia

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I carry within me a deep silence, a garden of unuttered dreams.

—Juana de IbarbourouPoet

Early Modern ERA • Latin America

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Every man carries with him the ruins of his own country.

—Amin MaaloufNovelist

Late Modern ERA • MENA

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What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner.

—ColetteNovelist

Early Modern ERA • Western Europe

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There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.

—George SandNovelist

Industrial Age ERA • Western Europe

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Life is a constant wave, a desire to reach shore.

—Julia de BurgosPoet & Activist

Post-War ERA • Caribbean

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Home is not where you were born; home is where all your attempts to escape cease.

—Naguib MahfouzNovelist & Writer

Late Modern ERA • North Africa

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Exile is a way of life, a choice made by many.

—Nuruddin FarahNovelist

Late Modern ERA • East Africa

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Diaspora isn't just distance; it's a complicated dance between belonging and longing.

—R. Zamora LinmarkNovelist & Poet

Late Modern ERA • Southeast Asia

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There is no peace for me, and I am not at war; I fear and hope; I burn and am a mass of ice.

—Francesco PetrarchScholar & Poet

Renaissance ERA • Southern Europe

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In solitude, where we are least alone.

—Lord ByronPoet

Industrial Age ERA • Western Europe

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Home is where the heart is. I never had a home where my heart was.

—Sandra CisnerosAuthor

Digital Age ERA • North America

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Exile is not a place but a condition: the permanent nostalgia for elsewhere.

—Cristina Peri RossiPoet & Novelist

Post-War ERA • Latin America

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Beneath the make‑up and behind the smile, I am just a girl who wishes for the world.

—Marilyn MonroeActress

Post-War ERA • North America

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She was so weary of life, of love, of everything.

—Gustave FlaubertNovelist

Industrial Age ERA • Western Europe

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