{"quotes":[{"text":"When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as an escape.","author":"bell hooks","tags":["loneliness"],"id":198,"author_id":"bell+hooks"},{"text":"Let not the jolly be alone in the world, for they shall talk about the future and snag to do the exercises.","author":"Auliq Ice","tags":["failure-is-not-an-option","hard-work","lazy-people","lazyness","loneliness","loneliness","lonely-people"],"id":294,"author_id":"Auliq+Ice"},{"text":"Let not the jolly be alone in the world, for they shall talk about the future and snag to do the exercises.","author":"Auliq Ice","tags":["failure-is-not-an-option","hard-work","lazy-people","lazyness","loneliness","loneliness","lonely-people"],"id":294,"author_id":"Auliq+Ice"},{"text":"A lonely, quiet person has observations and experiences that are at once both more indistinct and more penetrating than those of one more gregarious; his thoughts are weightier, stranger, and never without a tinge of sadness. . . . Loneliness fosters that which is original, daringly and bewilderingly beautiful, poetic. But loneliness also fosters that which is perverse, incongruous, absurd, forbidden.","author":"Thomas Mann","tags":["loneliness","loneliness"],"id":483,"author_id":"Thomas+Mann"},{"text":"A lonely, quiet person has observations and experiences that are at once both more indistinct and more penetrating than those of one more gregarious; his thoughts are weightier, stranger, and never without a tinge of sadness. . . . Loneliness fosters that which is original, daringly and bewilderingly beautiful, poetic. But loneliness also fosters that which is perverse, incongruous, absurd, forbidden.","author":"Thomas Mann","tags":["loneliness","loneliness"],"id":483,"author_id":"Thomas+Mann"},{"text":"Underwater, we're drowning victims, struggling over and under each others' bodies. But above, we bob with the tide,undercurrents pulling us just far enough apart ,so that we're drifting parallel but not together.","author":"Craig Thompson","tags":["anxiety","loneliness","love"],"id":575,"author_id":"Craig+Thompson"},{"text":"People cannot win against their loneliness because loneliness is this world’s worst kind of pain.","author":"Masashi Kishimoto","tags":["loneliness","naruto","pain","people"],"id":700,"author_id":"Masashi+Kishimoto"},{"text":"I just never noticed how little of me existed before. I was a shadow without a person.","author":"Michael J. Sullivan","tags":["couples","loneliness","love"],"id":1084,"author_id":"Michael+J.+Sullivan"},{"text":"I'm not going anywhere,' she told me that night. But until we are old ladies--a cypress age, a Sawtooth age--I will continue to link arms with her, in public, in private, in a panic of love.","author":"Karen Russell","tags":["fear","loneliness","loss","love","sisters"],"id":1391,"author_id":"Karen+Russell"},{"text":"The return of solitude was not quite as Dina expected it to be. These many years I made a virtue of inescapable reality, she thought, calling it peace and quiet.","author":"Rohinton Mistry","tags":["circumstance","loneliness"],"id":1819,"author_id":"Rohinton+Mistry"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":2177,"pages":218,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}