Loneliness Quotes

Talking to strangers sounded like talking to no one, which Henry had some firsthand experience in- in real life. It was lonely. Almost as lonely as Lake View Cemetery, where he'd buried Ethel.

Loneliness is remedied at times with the company of a friend and at other times with the company of oneself.

I was so alone that every day was like eating my own heart.

I could be the lone Eskimo, friend of whales and seals."The Panopticon

I have a mouth for kisses / No one to give or to take / I have a heart in my bosom / Beating for nobody's sake.

What's the point of wandering?to find a better place?a home?But the loneliness will always capture mein its clawsof no tomorrow

There’s nothing abnormal about loneliness.

Seasons happened and things got colder and harder and suddenly I found myself smoking circles in the airby myself in the snowand I was not okay.

Loneliness can either kill you or teach you depending on you being either a fighter or a survivor

Turn your loneliness into singing and praying, and you shall realize that you are never alone at all

No matter whom I'm with I'll always be alone, " she said. And she added with a roguish touch: "Excellency.

I'll never fall in love again, " he once confessed to José Palacios, the only human being with whom he ever permitted himself that sort of confidence. "It's like having two souls at the same time.

Loneliness is like a big, empty room inside you that echoes with the sounds of the life you're not living.

Nothing is worse than loneliness.

The hush of the night sky is the silence of a graveyard.

You know something, you never know what lonely is until you are really alone, alone all day, alone all night, with no one to talk to.

If I can teach myself the art of loneliness, then perhaps the art of writing will come more easily to me.

People talked about loneliness as if it were something alive and it could get you. But loneliness is something dead, it's deadness. Lonely people are slowly dying people.

The extravagant cost of staying is watching others leave.-Commitment Defined

I always come here when I can't sleep [. . .] every night.

He really is alone in whatever hell this is.Completely and utterly alone.'It isn't, ' he thinks, as he trudges back toward his house, 'the most unfamiliar feeling in the world.

Loneliness is the endless disease that eats at our soul.

She spent the first half of her life alone. For the second half, she longed for a man of dignity to rescue her.

She didn’t care if the world thought she was pretty. All she wanted was that special someone to reach beyond the surface and discover her heart.

Together we were something less, which felt like such a relief, to not be ourselves for a while.

Sometimes I felt so alone that I wish there were a bigger, longer word for alone. I tried to tell Grandma about this feeling, about my suspicion that life was nicking away pieces of me.

How did men make themselves loved, I wondered. I had passed all my life with men who were loved but I seemed never to have learnt the lesson.

i could go if i wantedshare the floorboards with someonein a place less haunted but i like it hereand i’m happy to stay in this mess on my ownin this home i have built for myself in my bones

I felt lonely, and in full possession of my loneliness. It was the first time I had owned anything of value.

He lived on, miserable and misunderstood, as before, and increasingly lonely. One cannot write those words too often: Maurice’s loneliness: it increased.

I look and I look...I must have come to the wrong planet.It's so strange here.

Connor was....getting farther and farther ahead of me. I was frozen. And sometimes I feel like I haven't quite thawed.

No one is ever alone and silence does not equate defeat.

Fighting the good fight is not as easy when you’re fighting alone.

When one is just sad one should just be alone.

The dog upstairs won't shut up, but I can't hate him, he's up there alone all day, making noise must be the only way he knows he's not a ghost.

I’m . . . accustomed to being alone. There are times when alone is the best place to be. I enjoy my own company.

I crave stillness, And yet I fear the momentStillness turns into boredom, And the moment boredomTurns into loneliness.

An overcrowded world is the ideal place in which to be lonely.

I feel like I could disappear because I'm not real to other people.

Each day was very much like any other day, because they were alone so much that nothing ever disturbed them.

Something happens when you are alone most of the time, when there are no distractions. Your mind grows more powerful--muscular, even. It takes over and starts to carry you.

A box sits empty, wanting to hold and protect.Hollow tears it cries.

Most of us are so enthralled with the scary tigers in our minds--our stories of loneliness, rejection, grief--that we don't realize they are in the past. They can't hurt us anymore.

She sits there and feels the loneliness and the lack of him

Embracing human frailty, fallibility, and heartbreaking aloneness is crucial for any person seeking to attain self-actualization and self-realization.

Give me wildflowers instead of your heart, for I’d rather have them wither than the latter.

Loneliness was a full-body sensation, an anti-exhilaration, from his core outward.

I may be too young to be lonely, but I am too lonely to be young.

...very lonely and, often, very unhappy, with the poignant misery that comes to lonely people who long to be social and cannot, somehow, step naturally and unselfconsciously into some friendly group