Loneliness Quotes

This bed yawnsbeneath the weightof our absent selves.

It's just as easy to be lonely in a city as out in the wilderness. Easier, really. It's harder to ge...

Lingering is so very lonely when one lingers all alone.

I am alone now, truly alone, and absolutely isolated from any known life. I am it. If a count were t...

There were times when I had great times with my brothers, pillow fights and things, but I was, used ...

LonelinessIt's Hell for us to draw the fettersOf life in alienation, stiff.All people prefer to shar...

Are you angry? Punch a pillow. Was it satisfying? Not hardly. These days people are too angry for pu...

In the weeks that followed, we amazed ourselves. Our habits slid apart easily...And our very few int...

No life is a waste. The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we are alone.

The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we are alone.

Loneliness was like an ogre hovering over those activities

When we are most alone is when we embrace another's loneliness.

Didn't people call New Year's the loneliest night on the calender? She took comfort in knowing somew...

I thought about how often this was needed in everyday life. How we feel lonely, sometimes to the poi...

The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.

In the developed countries there is a poverty of intimacy, a poverty of spirit, of loneliness, of la...

I am," I saidTo no one thereAn no one heard at allNot even the chair"I am," I cried"I am," said IAnd...

It's the place built out of Man's ceaseless failure to overcome himself. Out of Man's endless war ag...

Outside the hospital, I squinted in the harsh morning sunlight. I could hear birds chirping in the t...

That initial anger she had felt turned to sadness, and now it had become something else, almost a du...

You know how it is. You feel a little different because other people have two parents, even if they’...

That’s why; he’s worried about how his life is turning out, and he’s lonely, and lonely people are t...

That’s why; he’s worried about how his life is turning out, and he’s lonely, and lonely people are t...

It wasn't always like this. There was a time when I imagined my life could happen in another way. It...

You’re lost in your own world, in the things that happen there, and you’ve locked all the doors. Som...

Because it hardly ends with falling in love. Just the opposite. I don't need to tell you, Your Honor...

When you are young, you think it's going to be solved by love. But it never is. Being close -- as cl...

When you're young, you think it's going to be solved by love. But it never is. Being close-as close ...

You fall in love, it's intoxicating, an for a little while you feel like you've actually become one ...

I left the library. Crossing the street, I was hit head-on by a brutal loneliness. I felt dark and h...

we used to talk all nightand do things alone togetherand i’ve begun(as a reaction to a feeling)to ba...

Two turtle doves will show theeWhere my cold ashes lieAnd sadly murmuring tell theeHow in tears I di...

The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness.

An echo from the past when, innocentWe looked upon the present with delightAnd doubted not the futur...

When we learn to speak, we learn to translate.

In this passionately social world, loneliness dogged the spirit. People were constantly “getting tog...

In this passionately social world, loneliness dogged the spirit. People were constantly “getting tog...

In all my wanderings through this world of care,In all my griefs -- and God has given my share --I s...

As Sicknes is the greatest misery, so the greatest misery of sicknes, is solitude...Solitude is a to...

The only antidote to the loneliness of the streets was the streets themselves.

Maybe you've understood by now that for men like myself, that is, melancholy men for whom love, agon...

A man could be at the coffee-house every evening laughing and playing cards with his friends, he cou...

As I was looking at myself in the bathroom mirror, it occurred to me that if all else failed, a man ...

I imagine it feels like bathing in ice to the person touching her. But how does it feel to her? Cold...

You are the least-alone person I have ever known. Your heart has always included within it everyone ...

Graff had isolated Ender to make him struggle. To make him prove, not that he was competent, but tha...

But most of those to whom Ender's Game feels most important are those who, like me, feel themselves ...

It was not right, thought Han Fei-tzu, for his wife to die before him: her ancestor-of-the-heart had...

He could only consider me as the living corpse of a would-be suicide, a person dead to shame, an idi...

For someone like myself in whom the ability to trust others is so cracked and broken that I am wretc...

Show me what you've written," I said, although I wanted desperately to avoid looking at it.

And I was incapable of living all by myself in those lodgings where I didn't know a soul. It terrifi...

Even now it comes as a shock if by chance I notice in the street a face resembling someone I know ho...

I go about saying how pained and tormented, how lonely and sad I feel, but what do I really mean by ...

Squiffy, have you ever felt a sort of strange emptiness in the heart? A sort of aching void of the s...

So that you will hear memy wordssometimes grow thinas the tracks of the gulls on the beaches.Necklac...

I cannot help but wonder how many of us walk through our lives, day after day, feeling slightly brok...

Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone.

Surely it is an odd way to spend your life - sitting alone in a room with a pen in your hand, hour a...

Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It has created the word loneliness to e...

Language... has created the word 'loneliness' to express the pain of being alone. And it has created...

Language has created the word 'loneliness' to express the pain of being alone and the word 'solitud...

Our language has wisely sensed these two sides of man’s being alone. It has created the word “loneli...

Our language has wisely sensed these two sides of man’s being alone. It has created the word “loneli...

Language has created the word “loneliness” to express the pain of being alone. And it has created th...

A good movie can take you out of your dull funk and the hopelessness that so often goes with slippin...

I think that if we look for love courageously, it reveals itself, and we wind up attracting even mor...

If we are alone, we become more alone. Life is strange

And if I'm alone in bed, I will go to the window, look up at the sky, and feel certain that loneline...

I've noticed that loneliness gets stronger when we try to face it down, but gets weaker when we simp...

I also wanted to express the strength of cinema to hide reality, while being entertaining. Cinema ca...

Walking by yourself in the rain is for college kids who think loneliness makes poets.

To be insular is to be independent. But it is also to be alone.

The tyranny of an object, he thought. It doesn't know I exist.

I'm not much but I'm all I have.

Darling, no one would ever dream of performing an operation on a child without testing it first. And...

Alvin didn't cry, didn't curse, didn't holler.... He was too far gone to roar on that day or even to...

The tragedy of the man not set up for tragedy—that is every man's tragedy.

True, he had chosen to live alone, but not unbearably alone. The worst of being unbearably alone was...

What had happened in these ten years for there suddenly be so much to say — so much so pressing that...

I can relate to Marguerite Duras even though I'm not French, nor have I been consumed by love for an...

I was always alone, Doc, solitary whether I wished to be or not, ever since I could remember I wishe...

I was a tourist in a bizarre land. I was home.

I was a lonely boy. I spent all my time reading books and watching the world. [some] tried to draw m...

The more we speak of solitude, the clearer it becomes that at the bottom it is not something one can...

It seems to him there area thousand bars, and behind the bars, no world.

I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.

That’s love: Two lonely persons keep each other safe and touch each other and talk to each other.

Who, if I cried, would hear me among the angelic orders? And even if one of them suddenly pressed me...

To retreat into oneself and meet nobody for hours on end—that is what one must be able to attain. To...

[A]t bottom, and just in the deepest and most important things, we are unutterably alone, and for on...

The only sadnesses that are dangerous and unhealthy are the ones that we carry around in public in o...

Perhaps many things inside you have been transformed; perhaps somewhere, someplace deep inside your ...

It is good to be alone, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult should be one more re...

Why should you want to give up a child's wise not-understanding in exchange for defensiveness and sc...

The SolitaryAs one who has sailed across an unknown sea,among this rooted folk I am alone;the full d...

Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

I fall in love with Paraíso. It’s like a giant playground where I’m never scolded for running around...

Why aren't you in school? I see you every day wandering around.""Oh, they don't miss me," she said. ...

One day many years ago a man walked along and stood in the sound of the ocean on a cold sunless shor...