"We're all lonely for something we don't know we're lonely for. How else to explain the curious feeling that goes around feeling like missing somebody we've never even met?"

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David Foster Wallace

#Lonely Quotes #Loneliness Quotes #Being Alone Quotes

“We, on the other hand, must take for granted that the things that exist by nature are, either all or some of them, in motion.”
“Hendrix inspired me, but I was still more into Wes Montgomery. I was also into the Allman Brothers around the time of those albums.”
“So this is how you swim inward. So this is how you flow outwards. So this is how you pray.”
“I think I would rather be a man than a god. We donâ€™t need anyone to believe in us. We just keep going anyhow. Itâ€™s what we do.”
“For there are two kinds of forgiveness in the world: the one you practice because everything really is all right, and what went before is mended. The other kind of forgiveness you practice because someone needs desperately to be forgiven, or because you need just as badly to forgive them, for a heart can grab hold of old wounds and go sour as milk over them.”

Source : Catherynne M. Valente (2014). “The Fairyland Series”, p.517, Macmillan
“In one year I travelled 450,000 miles by air.”
“Some people are your family no matter when you find them, and some people are not, even if you are laid, still wet and crumpled, in their arms.”

Source : Amy Bloom (2010). “Love Invents Us”, p.198, Vintage
“I'm not sure Messi is a human.”

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