Loneliness Quotes

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...

We can't underestimate the value of silence. We need to create ourselves, need to spend time alone. ...

Love is something totally new every day, but pleasure is not, pleasure has continuity. Love is alway...

When I'm in turmoil, when I can't think, when I'm exhausted and afraid and feeling very, very alone,...

Loneliness is a hard thing to handle. I feel it, sometimes. When I do, I want it to end. Sometimes, ...

She knew all the indices to the idle lonely, never bought a small tube of toothpaste, never dropped ...

In 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...

Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy...

She understood how a world jammed with phones, email, and faxes could still leave you feeling utterl...

No one has ever properly understood me, I have never fully understood anyone; and no one understands...

Let this little book be thy friend, if, owing to fortune or through thine own fault, thou canst not ...

By Fortune's adverse buffets overborneTo solitude I fled, to wilds forlorn,And not in utter loneline...

The 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...

I preach that odd defiant melancholy that sees the dreadful loneliness of the human soul and the pit...

No man is an Island intire of it self every man is a peece of the Continent a part of the maine i...

Perhaps twenty minutes later he realized she had gone to sleep. He quietly removed his now stiff arm...

Thus it had come about that she had read far more fiction, and far more poetry, those two sanctuarie...

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...

I suppose I'd had, by the standards of that pre-permissive time, a good deal of sex for my age. Girl...

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.

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...

Loneliness is the prison of the human spirit. When we are lonely, we pace back and forth in small, s...

A writer out of loneliness is trying to communicate like a distant star sending signals. He isn't te...

... 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...

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...

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...

We have to live without sympathy, don't we? That's impossible of course. We act it to one another, a...

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...

The problem with making a virtual world of oneself is akin to the problem with projecting ourselves ...

And if the world refused to square with his version of reality then it was necessarily an uncaring w...

Deep down, the young are lonelier than the old.' I read that in a book somewhere and it's stuck in m...

I feel too much. That's what's going on.' 'Do you think one can feel too much? Or just feel in the w...

It made me start to wonder if there were other people so lonely so close. I thought about “Eleanor R...

I brought the birdcages to the windows.I opened the windows, and opened the birdcages.I poured the f...

I remembered my mother's speech at my wedding. "In sickness and in sickness. That is what I wish for...

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...

I'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...

how can you imagine what particular region of the first ages a man's untrammelled feet may take him ...

No, it is impossible; it is impossible to convey the life-sensation of any given epoch of one’s exis...

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 ...

In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than t...

We need to bridge our sense of loneliness and disconnection with a sense of community and continuity...

People who do a job that claims to be creative have to be alone to recharge their batteries. You can...

Perhaps there are those who are able to go about their lives unfettered by such concerns. But for th...

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...

I'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...

I believe that you control your destiny, that you can be what you want to be. You can also stop and ...

This was what I came to found. The conquest of loneliness was the missing link that was one day goin...

It'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...

If you are alone you belong entirely to yourself. If you are accompanied by even one companion you b...

It'll be no use their putting their heads down and saying "Come up again, dear!"I shall only look up...

The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to ...

A woman who is willing to be herself and pursue her own potential runs not so much the risk of lonel...

A woman who is willing to be herself and pursue her own potential runs not so much the risk of lonel...

When a man is one of a kind, he will be lonely wherever he is.

…nothing remained but loneliness and grief…

I am lonely, sometimes, but I dare say it's good for me…

And what’s the use of talking, if you already know that others don’t feel what you feel?

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...