Loneliness Quotes

she slammed the door andwas gone.I looked at the closed doorand at the doorknoband strangelyI didn't...

He had been for many years, a quiet silent man, associating but little with other men, and used to c...

It was the shadow of Some one who had gone by long before: of Some one who had gone on far away quit...

Are you upset little friend? Have you been lying awake worrying? Well, don't worry...I'm here. The f...

Rats! There goes the bell... oh, how I hate lunch hours! I always have to eat alone because nobody l...

Well, I know about loneliness. I won't talk about it, but I was very lonely after the war. I know wh...

There must be different kinds of loneliness, or at least different degrees of loneliness, but the mo...

As the new work fills my notebooks, I've come to realize that the characters in my stories were so r...

Je fais mon lit et mon ménage; I seek my dinner in a restaurant; my supper takes care, of itself; I ...

The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to st...

I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all extraneous delights should be...

Even for me life had its gleams of sunshine.

Human beings must love something, and, in the dearth of worthier objectsof affection, I contrived to...

I stood lonely enough, but to that feeling of isolation I was accustomed: it did not oppress me much...

It is a very strange sensation to inexperience youth to feel itself quite alone the world, cut adrif...

. . . if there was a hope of comfort for any moment, the heart or head of no human being in this hou...

Even if times are tough and you're enduring a terrible heartache, it's important to focus your anger...

it would hurt him to know she had felt that way for a while, that her relationship with him was like...

It is not they who have closed but I. I've cut myself away. I'm alone, and lonely. What frightens me...

The supermarket is still open; it won't close till midnight. It is brilliantly bright. Its brightnes...

I had failed him; I knew it. But I could do no more. It was beyond my strength.That night, I think, ...

For the first time in years, she felt the deep sadness of exile, knowing that she was alone here, an...

None of them could help her. She had lost all of them. They would not find out about this; she would...

But he also knew that, as much as he wanted to aid and console the soldier, he wanted to be alone in...

For the first time in years, he felt the deep sadness of exile, knowing that he was alone here, an o...

On this road there are no godspoke men. They are gone and I am left and they have taken with them th...

Two fears alternate in marriage, of loneliness and of bondage. The dread of loneliness being keener ...

It's no good trying to get rid of your own aloneness. You've got to stick to it all your life. Only ...

Perhaps only people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the univer...

The world is supposed to be full of possibilities, but they narrow down to pretty few in most person...

Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.

What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only...

Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

I don’t know what’s worse: to not know what you are and be happy, or to become what you’ve always wa...

But a lonely man is an unnatural man, and soon comes to perplexity. From perplexity to fantasy. From...

Fiction is one of the few experiences where loneliness can be both confronted and relieved. Drugs, m...

An ad that pretends to be art is -- at absolute best -- like somebody who smiles warmly at you only ...

Huh. Well you and I just disagree. Maybe the world just feels differently to us. This is all going b...

There is something magical to me about literature and fiction and I think it can do things not only ...

Lonely people tend, rather, to be lonely because they decline to bear the psychic costs of being aro...

It's weird to feel like you miss someone you're not even sure you know.

Weight Watchers holds as a descriptive axiom the transparently true fact that for each of us the uni...

...it’s not just the person who fills a house, it’s their I’ll be back later!s, their toothbrushes a...

The truth is "#9dream" is a descendant of "Norwegian Wood". Both are ghost stories. "She" in "Norweg...

Given enough time, you could convince yourself that loneliness was something better, that it was sol...

Do you think you can cause something to happen just from wanting it so much?' she asked. 'I don't ge...

I've seen women-and men too, sometimes-as canna bear the sound of their own thoughts, and they maybe...

If you like, you can all think of it as my gift to you. I never had much else to give. You can get o...

Many people seek fellowship because they are afraid to be alone...let him who cannot be alone beware...

Where a people prays, there is the hurch; and where the church is; there is never loneliness.

Many persons seek community because they are afraid of loneliness...those who take refuge in communi...

Who am I? They often tell me I would step from my cell's confinement calmly, cheerfully, firmly, lik...

When my head is in the typewriter the last thing on my mind is some imaginary reader. I don’t have a...

As always when he worked with this much concentration he began to feel a sense of introverting press...

Poem to Be Read at 3:00 A.M.by Donald JusticeExcepting the dinerOn the outskirtsThe town of Ladoraat...

…I’ve come to realize that the only truths that matter to me are the ones I don’t, and can’t, unders...

And I'm hoping there's some larger truth about suffering here, or at least my understanding of it - ...

...not to look back or feel sad about things, that home is wherever I am.

Loneliness, she thought, was craving for other people's company. But she did not know that lonelines...

I was lonely, deadly lonely. And I was to find out then, as I found out so many times, over and over...

We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that lo...

I don't know," she said. "We used to squabble a lot when we were going together and then engaged and...

I think it takes an amazing amount of energy to convince oneself that the Forever Person isn't just ...

Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest iron...

Oh, the places you'll go! There is fun to be done!There are points to be scored. There are games to ...

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may came home with a smooth round stoneas small as a world and as large as alone.

He lived on, miserable and misunderstood, as before, and increasingly lonely. One cannot write those...

I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not be...

From childhood's hour I have not beenAs others were - I have not seenAs others saw - I could not bri...

The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!

I was lonelier than I should be, for a woman in love, or half in love.

Where you used to be there is a hole in the world which I find myself constantly walking around in...

Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in...

And because no one answered or cared and a conversation went on without her she felt profoundly lone...

Depression on my left, Loneliness on my right. They don't need to show me thier badges. I know these...

So be lonely, Liz. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your...

I’m here. I love you. I don’t care if you need to stay up crying all night long, I will stay with yo...

When I get lonely these days, I think: So BE lonely, Liz. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a m...

I'm here. I love you. I don't care if you need to stay up crying all night long, I will stay with yo...

Loneliness watches and sights, then climbs into my bed and pulls the covers over... himself, fully d...

Why would you want any other, when you’re a world within a world?

You think you're alone until you realize you're in it.Now fear is here to stay, love is here for a v...

I could say it was the nights when I was lonelyand you were the only one who'd talk.I could tell you...

Mr. Heathcliff, you have nobody to love you; and, however miserable you make us, we shall still have...

One need not be a chamber to be haunted,One need not be a house;The brain has corridors surpassingMa...

I HIDE myself within my flowerThat wearing on your breast,You, unsuspecting, wear me too—And angels ...

There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his ow...

There had never been any more between us thanchance had brought. But perhaps that makes a greater in...

I felt very lonely when they were all there.

I know that the night is not the same as the day: that all things are different, that the things of ...

let us sleep," he said and he felt the long light body, warm against him, comforting against him, ab...

Happiness is often presented as being very dull but, he thought, lying awake, that is because dull p...

In any case, there was only one tunnel, dark and lonely, mine, the tunnel in which I had spent my ch...

But he wanted to leap up, to say to her, I have been sick and I found out then, only then, how lonel...

Man's loneliness is but his fear of life.

The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and a...

There’s a loneliness that only exists in one’s mind. The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when ...

He was in love with every pretty woman he saw now, their forms at a distance, their shadows on the w...

I had traded the fight against love for the fight against loneliness, the fight against life for the...