{"quotes":[{"text":"They were shiny, shiny people that were bright like light bulbs, but there I stood out like a sore thumb, my dimness flickering self, and they saw it and removed themselves from me, forming their circle of light. Until the night died, they never noticed when the sun broke open its skull of rays, where I laid by the stop sign.","author":"Anthony Liccione","tags":["bullying","circle","die","dimness","friends","hurt","ignore","isolation","lonliness","oppress","people","shiny","society","unwelcome"],"id":7035,"author_id":"Anthony+Liccione"},{"text":"I'm tired of being alone, and fighting my battles alone.","author":"Mercedes Lackey","tags":["alone","lonliness","struggle"],"id":14297,"author_id":"Mercedes+Lackey"},{"text":"One real meeting is much better than a thousand internet or social media words.","author":"Stephen Richards","tags":["internet","isolation-loneliness","isolationism","lonliness","social-media","stephen-richards-self-help"],"id":14476,"author_id":"Stephen+Richards"},{"text":"Make me a shadow on the wall.","author":"Kate Griffin","tags":["change","lonliness","self-esteem","society"],"id":23198,"author_id":"Kate+Griffin"},{"text":"Mearth appeared angry and disappointed briefly, but then she just gazed at the ground. “…It must be horrible, feeling all alone, is it?” she asked.“Oh, not really,” said Alecto, his eyes lifeless, his voice listless. “I’m going to be forgotten by someone who I can’t forget, though. That will be terrible… but maybe it’s better if she does forget me altogether.","author":"Rebecca McNutt","tags":["alone","forget","friendship","listless","lonliness","love","memory","sad","sadness"],"id":29352,"author_id":"Rebecca+McNutt"},{"text":"When our heart is closed, it can create a lonely and isolated feeling together with the attitude: 'Nobody loves me' or 'Nobody cares about me', which can make it hard for other people to love us.","author":"Swami Dhyan Giten","tags":["healing","lonliness","love"],"id":36371,"author_id":"Swami+Dhyan+Giten"},{"text":"I agree with Proust in this, he says, that books create their own silences in ways that friends rarely do. And the silence that grows palpable when one has finished a canto of Dante, he says, is quite different from the silence that grows palpable when one has reached the end of Oedipus at Colonus. The most terrible thing that has happened to people today, he says, is that they have grown frightened of silence. Instead of seeking it as a friend and as a source of renewal they now try in every way they can to shut it out... The fear of silence is the fear of loneliness, he says, and the fear of loneliness is the fear of silence. People fear silence, he says, because they have lost the ability to trust the world to bring about renewal. Silence for them means only the recognition that they have been abandoned... How can people find the strength to be happy if they are so terrified of silence?","author":"Gabriel Josipovici","tags":["fear","lonliness","silence"],"id":38228,"author_id":"Gabriel+Josipovici"},{"text":"I have outlasted all desire,My dreams and I have grown apart;My grief alone is left entire,The gleamings of an empty heart.The storms of ruthless dispensationHave struck my flowery garland numb,I live in lonely desolationAnd wonder when my end will come.Thus on a naked tree-limb, blastedBy tardy winter's whistling chill,A single leaf which has outlastedIts season will be trembling still.","author":"Alexander Pushkin","tags":["death","desire","dreams","grief","heart","lonliness","numbness","poetry"],"id":43250,"author_id":"Alexander+Pushkin"},{"text":"A woman who had fallen out of love with her life.","author":"Jhumpa Lahiri","tags":["depression","lonliness","lost","need-for-healing","sadness","uncertainty"],"id":48156,"author_id":"Jhumpa+Lahiri"},{"text":"LIFE says Loneliness Is Friendly Enemy.","author":"shivangi lavaniya","tags":["enemy","friend","life","lonliness"],"id":52898,"author_id":"shivangi+lavaniya"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":87,"pages":9,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}