Loneliness Quotes

In other people's company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring...

Maybe loneliness is an acquired taste, or maybe it's like plunging your hand in ice water--it hurts like hell in the beginning, and then you go numb.

To an optimist loneliness is freedom, to all others it is prison.

One thing that is clearer to me every day is how much we all have in common, and one of those commonalities is that we all think we are alone.

the idea of being invisibly alone in a crowd of strangers is so tempting for a number of introverts...or maybe for loneliness?

If solitude feels painful, it's only because we don't know how to be alone.

and the boy's eyes are searching hers with something like loneliness, like the very last thing he wants is to be left behind right now.

I don't think there's a lonelier feeling than being with someone who has stopped caring.

Suffering does not only insulate. It drops its victim in an ocean desert where he sees men as distant ships passing. I not only feel alone, but very far away from you all.

Loneliness is a poison, but aloneness is a catalyst.

I cannot help but wonder how many of us walk through our lives, day after day, feeling slightly broken and alone, surrounded all the time by others who feel exactly the same way.

For fear you will be aloneyou do so many thingsthat aren’t you at all.

There was a story etched in each wrinkle on his forehead-the stories any long life can amass but that only a lonely life locks forever.

I can push everything into the dark.But it leaves me empty.And the dark always ends up finding me in my sleep

Dark hair on a white pillow, an ache inside, his face a reflection in her eye.

It's lonely up in the top

The only person I really wanted to talk about Augustus Waters was Augustus Waters.

We are alone by birth, but we conceal the truth from ourselves till death.

She doesn't give directions but there is a pot of gold at the end of her rainbow...Find it. If you can.

You are right... I am lonely. But unlike the rest of this world I am not lonely for anybody.

The only person I really wanted to talk to about Augustus Waters' death was Augustus Waters.

There were not words enough in the English language, nor in any language, to make his attitude and conduct intelligible to them.

Being lonely and loving your own company are two very different things. Don't ever get them mixed up.

The high is what you crave, what you would kill for... and believe me, you will lie to yourself until it's to late to stop.

At some point, loneliness becomes less a condition than a habit.

Too many thousands of opened books yawned between them and him. He had exiled himself.

What could he be thinking of? He seemed to be trying to remember something, perhaps an engagement, perhaps an excuse to leave her. For eventually, they all made some excuse.

I cry everyday but for a limited time

It was an intensely lonely moment, like all of eighth grade condensed into one claustrophobic second.

And the bell jangled, the driver started. The bus whirled off, to the last stop, the lonely room, the lonely night.

You told me you would never leave me, but the only thing I feel is loneliness...

Loneliness ia a human condition

I seek the city because there is nothing sweeter than not being alone in your loneliness.

Loneliness is a crowded room, Full of open hearts turned to stone, All together all alone

The void can only be filled with love.

Once you connect with yourself, it is impossible to be lonely or desperate.

Loneliness will give you the greatest chance of ever having a beautiful relationship with another person.

Dreams were frail things, when all was said, and loneliness the only certainty.

Loneliness is really a wonderful companion that can show us so much about ourselves and others.

Loneliness and desperation are only possible when we have lost touch with our beauty within.

I watched the moon alone, unable to share his cold beauty with anyone.

I didn't feel lonely until there was something to yearn for. Loneliness and longing are two sides of the same coin.

in the end, everyone can understand themselves only. You are the only one to which you never have to explain what you mean. Everything else is misunderstanding.

She wondered what life would be like if there was always an arm around her shoulder and if there was a back that welcomed her hug all the time.

Nothing has the power to remind you how alone you are like walking through a conglomeration of empty skyscrapers.

The return of solitude was not quite as Dina expected it to be. These many years I made a virtue of inescapable reality, she thought, calling it peace and quiet.

Loneliness is not lack of company. Loneliness is lack of purpose.

Could my proud loneliness be merely an illusion?

Frankie, " she said softly, "do you know what my idea of heaven is? A place where the windows are always clean, and the people I want can always come to dinner.

She's clearly gone too long without male companionship if any brute who walked her way made her sit up and take notice.