Loneliness Quotes

Art is made by the alone for the alone.

I need the pain of loneliness to make my imagination work.

Adam was not always alone, but he was always lonesome. Even in a group, he was slowly perfecting the...

He could see her, but dared not remain for fear of annoying her by seeming to be spying upon the ple...

My aunt must have been perfectly well aware that she would not see Swann again, that she would never...

She was not yet dead. But I was already alone.

The Loneliness of the Military HistorianConfess: it's my professionthat alarms you.This is why few p...

Those who live alone slide into the habit of vertical eating: why bother with the niceties when ther...

How could I have been so ignorant? she thinks. So stupid, so unseeing, so given over to carelessness...

...He was wrong about the sadness though: far better to have it when you're young. A sad pretty girl...

There was old sex in the room and loneliness, and expectation, of something without a shape or name....

Confronted by too much emptiness, said Adam One, the brain invents. Loneliness creates company as th...

You think of outside your room, of the streets of the town, the lonely little squares over by the st...

My grandfather had been the ugliest, darkest, foulest, most depraved figure of my childhood, more be...

My reputation is largely the creature of the kindly imaginings of my flock, whom I chose not to disi...

I've shepherded a good many people through their lives, I've baptized babies by the hundred, and all...

That's the strangest thing about this life, about being in the ministry. People change the subject w...

Because, once alone, it is impossible to believe that one could ever have been otherwise. Loneliness...

Having a sister or a friend is like sitting at night in a lighted house. Those outside can watch you...

You may have noticed that people in bus stations, if they know you also are alone, will glance at yo...

I am vehemently grateful that, by whatever means, I learned to assume that loneliness should be in p...

Lonely people have enthusiasms which cannot always be explained. When something strikes them as funn...

Be good and you will be lonesome.

If you think it ain’t dismal and lonesome out in a fog that way, by yourself, in the night, you try ...

I tell you loneliness is the thing to master. Courage and fear, love, death are only parts of it and...

Often I wished for someone to share my mind with; but their hearts were in little things, they would...

When you lose your freedom, you lose, first and foremost, the opportunity to choose the company you ...

Man was born for society. However little He may be attached to the World, He never can wholly forget...

Within perfect walls there is nothing worth protecting. There is, in fact, nothing. And so we exchan...

If you make friends with yourself, you'll never be alone.

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.

Alone"Lying, thinkingLast nightHow to find my soul a homeWhere water is not thirstyAnd bread loaf is...

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