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“Sleep is my lover now, my forgetting, my opiate, my oblivion.”
― Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife

tags: forgetting, lover, oblivion, opiate, sleep

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#2

“To be able to forget means sanity.”
― Jack London, The Star Rover

tags: forget, forgetting, sanity

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#3

“People always talk about how hard it can be to remember things - where they left their keys, or the name of an acquaintance - but no one ever talks about how much effort we put into forgetting. I am exhausted from the effort to forget... There are things that have to be forgotten if you want to go on living.”
― Stephen Carpenter, Killer

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#4

“To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius.”
― Joyce Cary

tags: forgetting, forgiveness, genius

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#5

“Maybe if I forgot things once in a while, we'd all be a little bit happier.”
― Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why

tags: forgetting, life

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#6

“The true definition of mental illness is when the majority of your time is spent in the past or future, but rarely living in the realism of NOW.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: attitude, awareness, disorders, dreams, enlightenment, faults, focus, forgetting, future, goals, here, here-and-now, identity, issues, journeys, letting-go, life, life-lessons, living, memories, mental-illness, now, pain, past, planning, present, present-moment, realism, regrets, sanity, self-awareness, unresolved

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#7

“When I say I'm going to forget you I know it's impossible to forget someone I once knew. What I want is to erase you from my thoughts and purge you from my memories. I'm saying it's what I wish for, not what is or could ever be.”
― Donna Lynn Hope

tags: breakups, forget, forgetting, letting-go

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#8

“Have you ever heard the wonderful silence just before the dawn? Or the quiet and calm just as a storm ends? Or perhaps you know the silence when you haven't the answer to a question you've been asked, or the hush of a country road at night, or the expectant pause of a room full of people when someone is just about to speak, or, most beautiful of all, the moment after the door closes and you're alone in the whole house? Each one is different, you know, and all very beautiful if you listen carefully.”
― Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth

tags: alone, quiet, silence

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#9

“We love the night and its quiet; and there is no night that we love so well as that on which the moon is coffined in clouds.”
― Fitz-James O'Brien, Classic Ghost Stories by Wilkie Collins, M.R. James, Charles Dickens and Others

tags: moon, night, quiet

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#10

“Sometimes you need to sit lonely on the floor in a quiet room in order to hear your own voice and not let it drown in the noise of others.”
― Charlotte Eriksson, You're Doing Just Fine

tags: alone, being, charlotte-eriksson, city, crowd, floor, inspiration, lonely, mastery, meditation

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#11

“I like it where it gets dark at night, and if you want noise, you have to make it yourself.”
― H. Beam Piper, Fuzzies and Other People

tags: noise, quiet, solitude

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#12

“I love the silent hour of night,
For blissful dreams may then arise,
Revealing to my charmed sight
What may not bless my waking eyes.”
― Anne Brontë, Best Poems of the Brontë Sisters

tags: dreams, night, poetry

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#13

“Some nights are made for torture, or reflection, or the savoring of loneliness.”
― Poppy Z.Brite

tags: evening, loneliness, night, reflection, torture

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#14

“Life begins at night”
― Charlaine Harris, Dead Until Dark

tags: eric-northman, night, sookie-stackhouse, true-blood

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#15

“Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

tags: disappointment, loneliness, loner, solitude

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#16

“The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

tags: loneliness, misattributed

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#17

“Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.”
― Douglas Coupland, Shampoo Planet

tags: irony, life, loneliness

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#18

“The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.”
― Lois Lowry, The Giver

tags: loneliness, memories, pain, share

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#19

“I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason. It has been the desperate attempt to escape from torturing memories, from a sense of insupportable loneliness and a dread of some strange impending doom.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

tags: addiction, alchohol, drinking, drugs, loneliness, melancholy, pain

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#20

“being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.”
― Charles Bukowski, Women

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#21

“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

tags: loneliness, loss, yearning

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#22

“The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.”
― Mother Teresa

tags: loneliness

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#23

“When you're surrounded by all these people, it can be lonelier than when you're by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don't feel like you can trust anyone or talk to anybody, you feel like you're really alone.”
― Fiona Apple

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#24

“We live as we dream--alone....”
― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

tags: dream, loneliness

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#25

“When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that's when I think life is over.”
― Audrey Hepburn

tags: aloneness, loneliness

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#26

“I'll never forget how the depression and loneliness felt good and bad at the same time. Still does.”
― Henry Rollins, The Portable Henry Rollins

tags: depression, loneliness

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#27

“So many people are shut up tight inside themselves like boxes, yet they would open up, unfolding quite wonderfully, if only you were interested in them.”
― Sylvia Plath, Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams: Short Stories, Prose and Diary Excerpts

tags: confidence, loneliness, shyness

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#28

“It would be too easy to say that I feel invisible. Instead, I feel painfully visible, and entirely ignored.”
― David Levithan, Every Day

tags: ignored, loneliness

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#29

“The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we are alone.”
― Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven

tags: loneliness, self-pity

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#30

“I'm not much but I'm all I have.”
― Philip K Dick, Martian Time-Slip

tags: loneliness, optimism, responsibility, time

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