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Nicole Krauss Quotes about Loneliness

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Loneliness: there is no organ that can take it all.

Loneliness: there is no organ that can take it all.

Nicole Krauss
Loneliness, Organs
Nicole Krauss (2012). “The History of Love”, p.19, Penguin UK

I left the library. Crossing the street, I was hit head-on by a brutal loneliness. I felt dark and hollow. Abandoned, unnoticed, forgotten, I stood on the sidewalk, a nothing, a gatherer of dust. People hurried past me. and everyone who walked by was happier than I. I felt the old envy. I would have given anything to be one of them.

Nicole Krauss
Loneliness, Dark, Past
Nicole Krauss (2006). “The History of Love: A Novel”, p.129, W. W. Norton & Company

He spoke of human solitude, about the intrinsic loneliness of a sophisticated mind, one that is capable of reason and poetry but which grasps at straws when it comes to understanding another, a mind aware of the impossibility of absolute understanding. The difficulty of having a mind that understands that it will always be misunderstood.

Nicole Krauss
Loneliness, Understanding, Solitude
Nicole Krauss (2003). “Man Walks Into a Room”, p.156, Anchor

After all who doesn't wish to make a spectacle of their loneliness

Nicole Krauss
Loneliness, Wish, History Of Love

But loneliness, true loneliness, is impossible to accustom oneself to, and while I was still young I thought of my situation as somehow temporary, and did not stop hoping and imagining that I would meet someone and fall in love...Yes, there was a time before I closed myself off to others.

Nicole Krauss
Falling In Love, Loneliness, Impossible
Nicole Krauss (2011). “Great House”, p.219, Penguin UK

I won't waste your time with the injuries of my childhood, with my loneliness, or the fear and sadness of the years I spent inside my parents' marriage, under the reign of my father's rage, afer all, who isn't a survivor from the wreck of childhood?

Nicole Krauss
Father, Loneliness, Sadness
Nicole Krauss (2011). “Great House: A Novel”, p.200, W. W. Norton & Company

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