Emotional Solitude Quotes

When you're making an album, it's, like, exciting every night you make something new, but you're the only one who gets to hear it.

Nobody understands another's sorrow, and nobody another's joy.

To the lover the loved one always appears as solitary.

Loneliness, when accepted, becomes a gift that will lead us to find a purpose in life.

There's nowhere in New York to go and have your emotions to yourself. People just look the other way because every day people see someone crying on the subway!

[A]t bottom, and just in the deepest and most important things, we are unutterably alone, and for one person to be able to advise or even help another, a lot must happen, a lot must go well, a whole constellation of things must come right in order once to succeed.

Sometimes he caught himself listening to the sound of his own voice. He thought that in her eyes he would ascent to an angelical stature; and, as he attached the fervent nature of his companion more and more closely to him, he heard the strange impersonal voice which he recognised as his own, insisting on the soul's incurable lonliness. We cannot give ourselves, it said: we are our own.

Sometimes you weren't supposed to share pain. Sometimes it was best just to deal with it alone.

Does the open wound in another's breast soften the pain of the gaping wound in our own? Or does the blood which is welling from another man's side staunch that which is pouring from our own? Does the general anguish of our fellow creatures lessen our own private and particular anguish? No, no, each suffers on his own account, each struggles with his own grief, each sheds his own tears.

When you live in a small house with five younger siblings, it's actually far more sensible- and much quicker- to cry alone.

The lover's discourse was of an extreme solitude. The solitude was extreme because it wasn't physical. It was extreme because you felt it while in the company of the person you loved. It was extreme because it was in your head, the most solitary of places.