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And all I lov’d—I lov’d alone

—Edgar Allan Poe

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Well, I
wait around the train station
waitin' for that train
waitin' for the train, yeah
to take me
from this lonesome place

—Jimi Hendrix

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If I should be short on words
And long on things to say
Could you crawl into my world
And take me worlds away

—Chris Cornell

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I go to the hills
when my heart is lonely

—The Sound of Music

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O’Keeffe said
a very old friend of hers—Dave—
was one of the few people
she could stand with
in a beautiful place
and feel all alone.
Those people are pretty rare
she said,
she once stood with him
on the rim of the Grand Canyon
and felt alone.

—C.S. Merrill,
O’Keeffe: Days in a Life

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Sometimes I feel like
my only friend

—Red Hot Chili Peppers

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the irony of loneliness
is we all feel it
at the same time

—rupi kaur

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You can stand under my umbrella
You can stand under my umbrella

—Rihanna

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Poem: Fruit of Loneliness

Poems about loneliness & solitude

Loneliness test 1, 2

The ‘quiet catastrophe’ brewing in our social lives

Poem: [anyone lived in a pretty how town]

Why human connection is crucial to our health

Loneliness is a communal experience

Politics and America’s loneliness epidemic

11 things to do when you feel lonely

Pets really can be like human family

An overlooked cure for loneliness

Ikigai

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