L'Amour, comme l'amitié, se nourrit seulement de surmonter, de pardonner et de permettre.
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Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent.

By R.D. Laing

There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life.

By Alain de Botton

I know it's not easy for you, living this life, but try to remember, always try to remember, you're not the only one with troubles.

By Laini Taylor

I preferred to look at the sea, which said nothing and never made you feel alone.

By Paula McLain

There are kinds of solitude that provide a respite from loneliness, a holiday if not a cure.

By Olivia Laing

What does it feel like to be lonely? It feels like being hungry: like being hungry when everyone around you is readying for a feast.

By Olivia Laing

Why do you put yourself in unsafe places? Because something in you feels fundamentally devoid of worth.

By Olivia Laing

Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books written because authors couldn't find anyone to talk to.

By Alain de Botton

For the way loneliness is worse when you return to it after a reprieve—like the soul’s version of putting on a wet bathing suit, clammy and miserable.

By Laini Taylor

I was relying on youth be loyal to the specific variety of compromise and unhappiness, which our hard-won marriage represents.

By Alain de Botton

Marriage: a deeply peculiar and ultimately unkind thing to inflict on anyone one claims to care for.

By Alain de Botton

If one felt successful, there'd be so little incentive to be successful.

By Alain de Botton

The largest part of what we call 'personality' is determined by how we've opted to defend ourselves against anxiety and sadness".

By Alain de Botton

The night felt very long, but it ended as all nights do.

By Laini Taylor

One rarely falls in love without being as much attracted to what is interestingly wrong with someone as what is objectively healthy.

By Alain de Botton
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