“I would like to be with you, but I do love my loneliness too.”
“You think you re alone until you realize you re in it. Now fear is here to stay, love is here for a visit.”
“She was alone. She missed him immediately.”
“Alone! yesterday, today and forever.”
“Cô đơn không phải tự nhiên sinh ra, mà nó chỉ bắt đầu từ lúc bạn yêu một ai đó.”
“He felt if he could not be alone, and if he could not be left alone, he would die.”
“When you walk alone, when everybody is against you, if you are sure with your ideas, walk strongly and proudly as if there is an army of angels by your side! ~”
“Don’t waste your time on people; let them waste on you.”
“I once read that most people are afraid to live alone because to live alone means to die alone. They have visions of themselves eating their breakfast, enjoying the dripping sluice of a ripe plum, and then suddenly the lights go out and they fall face-first into their pancakes. People, it seems, are less afraid of loneliness than worrying about what other people will think when they’re found in some unappealing, disintegrating state, tongue out, one leg curled underneath the other, internal fluids in a puddle on the floor, etcetera. Most people are afraid that if left alone, they will not be found. Being found is apparently of the utmost importance to people.”
“She wanted to sit in the pub with him the way Sam did with Steve, the way Matty and Karen had done last weekend with their boyfriends, to hold his hand as they walked down the street, to be able to smile in public at him, not this controlled, agonisingly formal behaviour. It struck her, this week in particular, that she was completely isolated. She couldn t talk to him, she couldn t talk to her friends, and she didn t know when that would change. And she couldn t do anything about it; she was weak, because she loved him too much, not that that was weakness, but - she was powerless.”
“I m a grenade, I just want to stay away from people and read books, and think...”
“Maybe I can learn to live in a way that makes it worth writing about, and maybe I can actually become something more than this empty shell.”
“She deserved at least one person who saw her and knew how good she was.”
“You don’t know what it means to be betrayed! Should I explain it to you? It means to be treated like trash and your feelings get stepped on… you get hurt over and over again and in the end you are left alone! Can’t you see how much I care for you? How hard I’m trying to connect with you? When did I ever betray you? When did I ever leave you alone?”
“How was I able to live alone before, my little everything? Without you I lack self-confidence, passion for work, and enjoyment of life--in short, without you, my life is no life. [Written to his wife, Mileva]”
“More and more I feel like a letter—deposited here, collected there. But a letter addressed to no one.”
“I have a good life, I remind myself. There are plenty of people who love me. They re just not around at the moment.”