Loneliness Quotes

Had I been screaming, screaming, in some way? I with my life so separate and well-ordered in the com...

Just think about it," he said softly. "You can do practically anything. You can have practically eve...

I know in a way I never knew before that there is nowhere for me to go, nothing for me to do, and no...

A lonely, quiet person has observations and experiences that are at once both more indistinct and mo...

The man who fears to be alone will never be anything but lonely, no matter how much he may surround ...

One by one they are being picked off around him: in his small circle of colleagues the ratio slowly ...

Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man.

One evening he was in his room, his brow pressing hard against the pane, looking, without seeing the...

Everybody has something that chews them up and, for me, that thing was always loneliness. The cinema...

There was a marvelous, dark lyricism in his voice, the kind of defiance that is rooted in deep lonel...

The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and...

What was it - this implacable remoteness, this inability to surrender herself to the warmth and comr...

Loneliness wasn't just a state of mind, was it? It was tactile. She could feel it. It was a sixth se...

Loneliness wasn't just a state of mind, was it? It was tactile. She could feel it. It was a sixth se...

She learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the mena...

Lonely was much better than alone.

Clever of you, Hemul. But, on the other hand, think how lonely the Groke is because nobody likes her...

The Groke looked at the hat. Then she looked at Thingumy and Bob. Then she looked at the hat again. ...

Then -- they saw the Groke. Everybody saw her. She sat motionless on the sandy path at the bottom of...

I remember, when I was about ten years old, working out that I would be thirty-six in the year 2000....

I woke up feeling alone, so lonely. The night before, I had cried myself to sleep. I lay there on th...

Are the dead as lonesome as the living?

Ged saw all these things from outside and apart, alone, and his heart was very heavy in him, though ...

paradise seemed further away than India, but Hell had become a bit closer

If she's in pain now she doesn't show it; she just closes her eyes and surrenders, and that is worse...

But I know that for every good thing that comes along, there is always a cost.

I have a scar-a faint gouge in my knee from when I fell down on the sidewalk as a child. It's always...

The saints were his friends, and blessed him; the monsters were his friends, and guarded him.

I walk across the park to her flat. It is over-heated and there is a great deal of pink. This used n...

One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it.

I often think of you all, one cannot do what one wants in life. The more you feel attached to a spot...

A great fire burns within me, but no one stops to warm themselves at it, and passers-by only see a w...

To whom can I expose the urgency of my own passion?…There is nobody—here among these grey arches, an...

It was a desire, an echo, a sound; she could drape it in color, see it in form, hear it in music, bu...

Far rather would she that he were dead! She could not sit beside him when he stared so and did not s...

. . . clumsiness is often mated with a love of solitude.

He looked very old. He looked, James thought, getting his head now against the Lighthouse, now again...

It was his power, his gift, suddenly to shed all superfluities, to shrink and diminish so that he lo...

She had known happiness, exquisite happiness, intense happiness, and it silvered the rough waves a l...

The house was left; the house was deserted. It was left like a shell on a sandhill to fill with dry ...

On I’ll pass,dragging my huge love behind me.On whatfeverish night, deliria-ridden,by what Goliaths ...

From his earliest years Cincinnatus, by some strange and happy chance comprehending his danger, care...

Listen: I am ideally happy. My happiness is a kind of challenge. As I wander along the streets and t...

And the poor lady, so small in her black satin, shrivelled up and sallow, with her funny corkscrew c...

This Midwestern sky is the nakedest loneliest sky in America. To escape it, people live inside and u...

[The modern age] knows nothing about isolation and nothing about silence. In our quietest and loneli...

He prayed for the recovery of that inward privacy which the purpose of his vigil demanded that he se...

Yes, after all, this by now was his customary loneliness: there was little else he desired for the p...

Novelty is a new kind of loneliness.

Nobody can discover the world for somebody else. Only when we discover it for ourselves does it beco...

Healing is impossible in loneliness; it is the opposite of loneliness. Conviviality is healing. To b...

People use drugs, legal and illegal, because their lives are intolerably painful or dull. They hate ...

When I decided to be a singer, my mother warned me I'd be alone a lot. Basically we all are. Lonelin...

Jack looked around for understanding, but found only respect.

Sing of disappointments more repeated than the batter of the sea, of lives embittered by resentments...

In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.

I began to get a feeling familiar to me from my bartending days of being the only sane man in a nuth...

It was true that I had traveled great distances for one so young, but my spirit had remained landloc...

Instantly a thick blackness seemed to enfold her and silence as of a dead world settled down upon he...

There pass the careless peopleThat call their souls their own:Here by the road I loiter,How idle and...

The half-moon westers low, my love,And the wind brings up the rain;And wide apart lie we, my love,An...

He laid there realizing how thoroughly he'd removed himself from the world or obligations, how stupi...

One is alone when the last one who remembers is gone. I have nephews and nieces and kind friends---b...

A man travels fastest who travels alone.

[Sylvia Plath] was now far along a peculiarly solitary road on which not many would risk following h...

Loneliness makes us more capable of true intimacy if ever better opportunities do come along. We mig...

Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books written bec...

The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with th...

The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in a time of pain or of joy. The tr...

When a man has learned how to remain alone with his suffering, how to overcome his longing to flee, ...

As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within ...

She was waiting, but she didn't know for what. She was aware only of her solitude, and of the penetr...

Every time a man (myself) gives way to vanity, every time he thinks and lives in order to show off, ...

How was I able to live alone before, my little everything? Without you I lack self-confidence, passi...

In spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really comm...

And whatever troubled him and showed in his face might have been the same old trouble - the problem ...

If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.

This sometimes happened: from time to time, Dantès, driven out of solitude into the world, felt an i...

Religion is what an individual does with his solitariness.

And whatever troubled him and showed in his face might have been the same old trouble - the problem ...

The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previou...

You are never alone. You are eternally connected with everyone.

to the glory of His name let me witness that in far away lands, in loneliness (deepest sometimes whe...

Moon! Moon! I am prone before you. Pity me, and drench me in loneliness.

Our uniqueness makes us special, makes perception valuable - but it can also make us lonely. This lo...

I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don’t know why, some people fill the gaps and others empha...

She was sewing together the little proofs of his devotion out of which to make a garment for her tat...

In America the vast spaces accentuate the vast spaces between people, deserts which stretch between ...

Am I creating my own isolation? It seems to me that most of my acts are acts of integrity. So much t...

In other people's company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring...

If you smile when you are alone, then you really mean it.

Wearing an antique bridal gown, the beautiful queen of the vampires sits all alone in her dark, high...

Of course, the spectacle of two people's happiness is always something of a magnet for the unclaimed...

But this gives no proper idea of my feelings at all; and no one that has not lived such a retired st...

Here we go mother on the shipless ocean.Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.

Loneliness is my least favorite thing about life. The thing that I'm most worried about is just bein...

It was as if the empty nights were made for thinking of him. And sometimes I found myself so vividly...

Oh to have you with me, to have you here, not to be alone, but to be with you, my beauty, you of all...

There is a horrifying loneliness at work in this time. No, listen to me. We lived six and seven to a...

One will hate you for taking his life, another will run to excesses that you scorn. A third will eme...