Loneliness Quotes
Dying, however, is lonely, the loneliest event of life. Dying not only separates you from others but...
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There never can be a man so lost as one who is lost in the vast and intricate corridors of his own l...
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I purely came over because I thought you looked extremely lonely. You have an extremely sensitive fa...
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When it became clear that nothing of the kind was forthcoming, I took more direct action. I prayed f...
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It was lousy in the park. It wasn't too cold, but the sun still wasn't out, and there didn't look li...
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Deprived of human intercourse, I inevitably overvalue the imagination and expect it to make the mund...
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Sometimes I felt so alone that I wish there were a bigger, longer word for alone. I tried to tell Gr...
Show MoreA hunted man sometimes wearies of distrust and longs for friendship.

It no longer makes me cry and die and tear myself to see her go because everything goes away from me...
Show MoreI was amazed by the fact that I was not the only writer living, not the only young man "with a locom...
Show MoreLook at that party the other night. Everybody wanted to have a good time and tried real hard but we ...
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Too many thousands of opened books yawned between them and him. He had exiled himself.
There were not words enough in the English language, nor in any language, to make his attitude and c...
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I've started to feel very odd within my own life. It's most peculiar to feel lonely inside your own ...
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—Alone, quite alone. You have no fear of that. And you know what that word means? Not only to be sep...
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He looked down the slope and, at the base, in the shadow of the wall of the Park, he saw some human ...
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...alone in this city, alone on this sea. The days were strewn about him, he was a drunkard of days....
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There were two immediate results of my forced loneliness: I began to find company in books, and grea...
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DeWitt: Loneliness leads to nothing good, only detachment. And sometimes the people who most need to...
Show MoreMr. Knightley to be no longer coming there for his evening comfort! - No longer walking in at all ho...
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Blessed with so many resources within myself the world was not necessary to me. I could do very well...
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She was stronger alone…

It bothered me that whatever was waiting wasn't waiting for me

To be adult is to be alone (etre adulte c'est etre seul).
If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.
Zel so often put himself outside of where he wanted to be and then looked in dumbly through the wind...
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We can't underestimate the value of silence. We need to create ourselves, need to spend time alone. ...
Show MoreLove is something totally new every day, but pleasure is not, pleasure has continuity. Love is alway...
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When I'm in turmoil, when I can't think, when I'm exhausted and afraid and feeling very, very alone,...
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Loneliness is a hard thing to handle. I feel it, sometimes. When I do, I want it to end. Sometimes, ...
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She knew all the indices to the idle lonely, never bought a small tube of toothpaste, never dropped ...
Show MoreIn the sinking sand,where we’ve come to rest,have I had a hand in your loneliness?
What was wrong with me? I had a decent life. I was healthy. I wasn't starving or maimed by a land mi...
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Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy...
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She understood how a world jammed with phones, email, and faxes could still leave you feeling utterl...
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No one has ever properly understood me, I have never fully understood anyone; and no one understands...
Show MoreLet this little book be thy friend, if, owing to fortune or through thine own fault, thou canst not ...
Show MoreBy Fortune's adverse buffets overborneTo solitude I fled, to wilds forlorn,And not in utter loneline...
Show MoreThe dead are my dark matter, filling up impalpably the empty spaces of the world.

I had never liked, even feared a little, this wild reach of marsh and mud flats where everything see...
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I preach that odd defiant melancholy that sees the dreadful loneliness of the human soul and the pit...
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No man is an Island intire of it self every man is a peece of the Continent a part of the maine i...
Show MorePerhaps twenty minutes later he realized she had gone to sleep. He quietly removed his now stiff arm...
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Thus it had come about that she had read far more fiction, and far more poetry, those two sanctuarie...
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Wolves don't hunt singly, but always in pairs. The lone wolf was a myth.

But he was absolutely alone. No one ever wrote to him. Visited him. Totally alone. And I believe the...
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I suppose I'd had, by the standards of that pre-permissive time, a good deal of sex for my age. Girl...
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You are helpful, and you are loved, and you are forgiven, and you are not alone.
The only person I really wanted to talk to about Augustus Waters' death was Augustus Waters.
The only person I really wanted to talk about Augustus Waters was Augustus Waters.
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Self-hatred is worse than loneliness.

Loneliness is the prison of the human spirit. When we are lonely, we pace back and forth in small, s...
Show MoreLoneliness is the prison of the human spirit. When we are lonely, we pace back and forth in small, s...
Show MoreA writer out of loneliness is trying to communicate like a distant star sending signals. He isn't te...
Show More... but she was also bewilderingly lonely... Abra had lost her gift for being alone.
All great and precious things are lonely.

I ain't got no people. I seen the guys that go around on the ranches alone. That ain't no good. They...
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Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.

This is just a nigger talkin', an' a busted-back nigger. So it don't mean nothing, see? You couldn't...
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He stopped, feeling lonely in his long speech.

A number of years ago I had some experience with being alone. For two succeeding years I was alone e...
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We have to live without sympathy, don't we? That's impossible of course. We act it to one another, a...
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I’m good when I’m alone. I’m comfortable when I’m alone. I can sit and do lots of things all by myse...
Show MoreThe problem with making a virtual world of oneself is akin to the problem with projecting ourselves ...
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And if the world refused to square with his version of reality then it was necessarily an uncaring w...
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Deep down, the young are lonelier than the old.' I read that in a book somewhere and it's stuck in m...
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I feel too much. That's what's going on.' 'Do you think one can feel too much? Or just feel in the w...
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It made me start to wonder if there were other people so lonely so close. I thought about “Eleanor R...
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I brought the birdcages to the windows.I opened the windows, and opened the birdcages.I poured the f...
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I remembered my mother's speech at my wedding. "In sickness and in sickness. That is what I wish for...
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At some point, loneliness becomes less a condition than a habit.
At some point, loneliness become less a condition than a habit. In time, you stop looking at your ph...
Show MoreI'm alone and nobody is in the mirror

Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely th...
Show Morehow can you imagine what particular region of the first ages a man's untrammelled feet may take him ...
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No, it is impossible; it is impossible to convey the life-sensation of any given epoch of one’s exis...
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We live as we dream--alone....

Over the lives borne from under the shadow of death there seems to fall the shadow of madness.

The Sun is such a lonely star. Whenever he comes out to see his friends, they all disappear.

Loneliness is about the scariest thing out there.
If I'm such a legend then why am I so lonely? Let me tell you legends are all very well if you've ...
Show MoreIn the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than t...
Show MoreWe need to bridge our sense of loneliness and disconnection with a sense of community and continuity...
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People who do a job that claims to be creative have to be alone to recharge their batteries. You can...
Show MorePerhaps there are those who are able to go about their lives unfettered by such concerns. But for th...
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Sometimes isolation can be shared.

Lupita thought that people who didn’t dance were selfish and lonely.

I’ll be honest with you. I’m a little bit of a loner. It’s been a big part of my maturing process to...
Show MoreI'm not like themBut I can pretend
Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.
He liked the electric darkness and the hot dirty air and the blasts of noise and traffic and the man...
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I believe that you control your destiny, that you can be what you want to be. You can also stop and ...
Show MoreThis was what I came to found. The conquest of loneliness was the missing link that was one day goin...
Show MoreIt's bad to be unable to stand solitude.
A teacher I once had told me that the older you get, the lonelier you become and the deeper the love...
Show MoreIf you are alone you belong entirely to yourself. If you are accompanied by even one companion you b...
Show MoreIt'll be no use their putting their heads down and saying "Come up again, dear!"I shall only look up...
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The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to ...
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A woman who is willing to be herself and pursue her own potential runs not so much the risk of lonel...
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