Loneliness Quotes
Nos·tal·gia (n):A feeling that lingers long after the taste is gone.
The main thing about aliens is that they are alien. They feel no responsibility for fulfilling any of your expectations. (Dark City Lights)
Margie Flynn was in my head like a bad cold, blurring everything. It was a new kind of loneliness, a hurt I couldn’t stop picking at.
He was smarter than most, more sensitive. In that regard he was more prepared for the loneliness of senescence than she was. He'd been a stranger in the world for most of his life.
Afraid to die loveless. Because I think if you die without knowing love in this life, that's how you'll spend eternity. Alone. Frozen. Do you think hell is fiery? I don't. I think hell is frozen.
And that is one of the worst things about this life. As a liar, a pretend person, you cannot really truly ever be someone's friend. My American life, it is lonely. Often, it is very, very lonely.
We go from curiosity to a search for communion.
I thought about how often this was needed in everyday life. How we feel lonely, sometimes to the point of tears, but we don't let those tears come because we are not supposed to cry.
By Fortune's adverse buffets overborneTo solitude I fled, to wilds forlorn, And not in utter loneliness to live, Myself at last did to the Devil give!
There is no Beatitude for the lonesome.The Book doesn't say they are blessed.
Solitude is a terrible thing, for it permits the imagination to picture, in detail, that which perhaps should never be articulated.
Each time I reach outside my skin/I just get lonesome for what's within.
Maybe this is what alone really is — finding out how tiny your world is, and not knowing how to get anywhere else.
I believe that individuals nowadays are probably more aware of their inner loneliness than has ever been true before in history.
The only antidote to the loneliness of the streets was the streets themselves.
Isolated people, those who live alone, are always conscious of their condition in the homes of families.
There's nothing like standing kissing-close to a beautiful stranger to make you really feel your loneliness.
Prepare for a radio, for nothing is silent like the grave
I was much younger, much hungrier, much more alone. But I was myself, pared down to the essentials.
At home, Tommy tried to avoid looking too long at himself in the mirror, for his reflection stirred in him a feeling of great loneliness and a fear that this loneliness might be permanent.
Most people never realize that loneliness is a gift from God. Not only can it draw us closer to Jesus, it can teach us to cherish a long-awaited marriage relationship all the more.
No life is a waste. The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we are alone.
The world itself, like the mask, began to seem difficult to believe in, and I was stricken with an unutterable sense of loneliness.
The barriers between animal and human come down very easily. We belong to a single great family, and if we are lonely and unhappy we gladly accept the friendship of our distant relations.
You are the least-alone person I have ever known. Your heart has always included within it everyone who let you love them, and many who did not.
Don’t put all of your focus on dating. Typically, if you’re involved in outside activities and causes that you are passionate about, chances are that you’re meeting people with similar interests.
Sometimes in utter hopelessness I put my cheek on the table like it was someone. I wanted to wake my brain up and be loved.
People say how do you live alone? My response-I have time for myself not for loneliness...
She would never forget how his soul was lonely as the moon they’d met under, and how, for several brief moments, she’d been able to chase the loneliness away.
You read something which you thought only happened to you, and you discovered it happened 100 years ago to Dostoyevsky.
No one is materialistic by birth. It the loneliness of that person which makes him, love things that can never love him back.
She knew all the indices to the idle lonely, never bought a small tube of toothpaste, never dropped a magazine in her shopping card.
Truth be told, loneliness had seeped into her bones with the passing of time until it had become her normal way of life.
...you hold a poemthat functions half as personalnote and half as telescopeto the heightsawaiting us all.
The loneliest thing in the world is lying awake beside someone asleep. ~ "The November Story
A particular variety of loneliness, like peering deep into the darkness. It's only natural, when two separate universes touch.
One dead and one alone. That's how the story ends.
I purely came over because I thought you looked extremely lonely. You have an extremely sensitive face.
The worst kind of loneliness, I think, is to be in the presence of those you love and have them treat you like you aren't there.
There had never been any more between us thanchance had brought. But perhaps that makes a greater indebtednessand binds closer than much else