Quotes about loneliness

People want to be loved failing that admired failing that feared failing that hated and despised. They want to evoke some sort of sentiment. The soul shudders before oblivion and seeks connection at any price.

Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone.

Loneliness is the poverty of self solitude is the richness of self.

Language... has created the word 'loneliness' to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word 'solitude' to express the glory of being alone.

Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.

When I decided to be a singer, my mother warned me I'd be alone a lot. Basically we all are. Loneliness comes with life.

Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.

An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.

I like being alone and I think this movie, as much as it is an investigation of connection and people bonding, I also think it's just as much about loneliness.

The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.

A woman who is willing to be herself and pursue her own potential runs not so much the risk of loneliness, as the challenge of exposure to more interesting men - and people in general.

Anger is a manifestation of a deeper issue... and that, for me, is based on insecurity, self-esteem and loneliness.

Loneliness is my least favorite thing about life. The thing that I'm most worried about is just being alone without anybody to care for or someone who will care for me.

Negative emotions like loneliness, envy, and guilt have an important role to play in a happy life; they're big, flashing signs that something needs to change.

The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account.

My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.

You make me feel like a firefly. Trapped in a belljar starved for love.

Know that you will eventually have to leave everything behind the writing will demand it of you.

Moon! Moon! I am prone before you. Pity me, and drench me in loneliness.

On the night of the winter solstice, when the dead get their annual reprieve, they go up to the 24-hour donut shop and wedding chapel to get hitched. Marriage is a good and proper pursuit for dead people. For a while, it relieves the dark, shuddering loneliness of the afterlife.

Loneliness is the poverty of self solitude is richness of self.

Half of the time I don't know what they're talking about their jokes seem to relate to a past that everyone but me has shared. I'm a foreigner in the world and I don't understand the language.

There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematician that four is twice two. But two is not twice one two is two thousand times one.

What have I become?My sweetest friend everyone I know goes away in the end.And you could have it all:my empire of dirt.I will let you down.I will make you hurt.

Outwardly I was all confidence and openness inwardly I was spiteful and lonely and unaware of how to relate to the world. I wanted so much to be good but only knew how to appear that way by being bad.

God didn’t make Adam and Eve because He was lonely or because He needed someone to love Him in return. God is complete in Himself He lacks nothing. God’s love compelled Him to create [humanity]. His love was expressed in the creation of the human race.

I have often said that loneliness is the predominant attitude in our culture. A person can be lonely in the midst of a party he can be lonely in a crowd. Loneliness may be experienced by the rich and famous or the poor and unknown.

What if our loneliness is the result not simply of needing a partner but of needing people? We are made in the image of a relational God it makes sense that we possess the desire to be together.

Do not be sad that all odds are against you be happy that your real purpose is by you

We are all alone in this world even in a crowd.

Quinn wanted to make her see that people didn't live like this but what was the use. No one was going to get her away from Bird Man out there.

To love and not be loved is to die and not be dead

when you're younga pair offemalehigh-heeled shoesjust sittingalonein the closetcan fire yourboneswhen you're oldit's justa pair of shoeswithoutanybodyin themandjust aswell.

Loneliness is not lack of companion it is the absence of the right people in our life. That is why we are alone even among the people.

If you try you would never be alone because the whole world is tired of loneliness.

It's not that people are mean to each other it's just that they haven't forgotten the times when being selfless brought them loneliness & pain.

He raised himself above her pallid face and kissed her on both closed eyes and thought: she thinks she is taking and does not know that she is giving in her loneliness she has fled to me and does not suspect my loneliness.

My aloneness had never bothered me I hadn't even been aware of it. But now it overwhelmed me. The awareness washed over me with painful sharpness and deep grief. Now that I had company.

Stillness was most natural. To go on scrabbling and running and grasping after some kind of life was aberration stillness was lasting.

Loneliness is not a result of physical isolation you're only lonely the day you realize that nobody shares your opinions.

My characters are quite as real to me as so-called real people which is one reason why I'm not subject to what is known as loneliness. I have plenty of company.

When we are lonely we not only react more intensely to the negatives we also experience less of a soothing uplift from the positives.

Rachel had been worried she couldn't remember what Sam looked like now she worried he wouldn't recognize her.

A whole planet of worlds, and not one of them—not one—has a soul. They wander through their lives separate and alone, unable even to communicate except through grunts and tokens: as if the essence of a sunset or a supernova could ever be contained in some string of phonemes, a few linear scratches of black on white. They've never known communion, can aspire to nothing but dissolution. The paradox of their biology is astonishing, yes; but the scale of their loneliness, the futility of these lives

There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.

Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.

Too much self-centered attitude, you see, brings, you see, isolation. Result: loneliness, fear, anger. The extreme self-centered attitude is the source of suffering.

As far as loneliness, I feel Los Angeles and its layout, having to drive everywhere - it is a lonely place. It's an isolated city in that respect because you're driving to places alone listening to the radio.

A blank wall of social and professional antagonism faces the woman physician that forms a situation of singular and painful loneliness, leaving her without support, respect or professional counsel.

Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.

To be adult is to be alone (etre adulte c'est etre seul).

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust.

Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man.

One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it.

So lonely 'twas that God himself scarce seemed there to be.

The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

Man's loneliness is but his fear of life.

No man is an Island intire of it self every man is a peece of the Continent a part of the maine if a Clod be washed away by the sea Europe is the lesse as well as if a Promontorie were as well as if a manor of thy friends or thine own were. Any man's death diminishes me because I am involved in Mankinde and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls it tolls for thee.

Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.

Little do men perceive what solitude is and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company and faces are but a gallery of pictures and talk but a tinkling cymbal where there is no love.

Where you used to be there is a hole in the world which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime and falling into at night. I miss you like hell.

The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness.

Language has created the word 'loneliness' to express the pain of being alone and the word 'solitude' to express the glory of being alone.

If I'm such a legend then why am I so lonely? Let me tell you legends are all very well if you've got somebody around who loves you.

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.

I said it's a cold universe and I don't mean that metaphorically. If you go out into space, it's cold. It's really cold and we don't know what's up there. We happen to be in this little pocket where there's a sun. What have we got except love and each other to guard against all that isolation and loneliness?

When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

In my adolescence, I think I felt very outcast; I felt lonely. I felt great loneliness, and sometimes I wouldn't partake in Christmas, and I would go off and wander in the streets of Melbourne.

The loneliest ebb of my life came on that Christmas eve, only one day after my arrival in New York. The abyss of loneliness. I ate a solitary dinner in a small cafe, and the very food tasted bitter with my unshed tears. One doesn't dare cry in America. It is unmanly here.

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

Roo: What’s your definition of popularity?Hutch: I used to think people were popular because they were good-looking, or nice, or funny, or good at sports. Roo: Aren’t they?Hutch: I’d think, if I could just be those things, I’d – you know – have more friends than I do. But in seventh grade, when Jackson and those guys stopped hanging out with me, I tried as hard as I could to get them to like me again. But then . . . (shaking his head as if to clear it) I don’t really wanna talk about it. Roo: Wh

Books make the best ersatz friendships.

Friends were hundred ,Kites were none ,This was the time when I was young.Now the kites are hundred ,Friends are none,Sitting under the flaming sun.

Friends were hundred ,Kites were none ,This was the time when I was young.Now the kites are hundred ,Friends are none,Sitting under the sun.

Hold me like you hold the hand of a little kid who needs you in loneliness, bite my fingers like you bite a giggling kid in front of her friends, and play with me like you play with a kid who only has a few days to live.

People who are all alone have every right to be friends with one another.("The Honeymoon Of Mrs. Smith" - Version 1)

Halls are full of strangers, even when you recognize the faces.

Hey, Hank, I notice all the women around your place lately ... good looking stuff; you're doing all right.""Sam," I say, "that's not true; I am one of God's most lonely men.

You better go alone, than with negative people!

I would far prefer to be in someone's arms than just in their head.

Missing someone is the reverberating echo of everything beautiful about her—her laugh, her song, her touch, her smell, the power of her words, and the constant shadow that lingers on as her perfect image in your memory.

We live as we dream--alone....

No, it is impossible; it is impossible to convey the life-sensation of any given epoch of one’s existence--that which makes its truth, its meaning--its subtle and penetrating essence. It is impossible. We live, as we dream--alone.

I'm just an insomniac struggling for a night where I don't dream of you anymore.

Perhaps twenty minutes later he realized she had gone to sleep. He quietly removed his now stiff arm, then turned away. It must have woken her a little After a moment he felt her turn as well and lay a hand, instinctively, like a sleeping wife, across his hips; as if, in some dream, he was the one who escaped.

Na, it's not about the human desires; it's about the desires being used to get rid of loneliness, insecurity and lack of love we often feel.

She deserved at least one person who saw her and knew how good she was.

Ursula craved solitude but she hated loneliness

The more we wait, the more everything and everyone looks like a grain of sand escaping between our fingers before vanishing into the wind.

Everybody has something that chews them up and, for me, that thing was always loneliness. The cinema has the power to make you not feel lonely, even when you are.

The Loneliness of the Military HistorianConfess: it's my professionthat alarms you.This is why few people ask me to dinner,though Lord knows I don't go out of my way to be scary.I wear dresses of sensible cutand unalarming shades of beige,I smell of lavender and go to the hairdresser's:no prophetess mane of mine,complete with snakes, will frighten the youngsters.If I roll my eyes and mutter,if I clutch at my heart and scream in horrorlike a third-rate actress chewing up a mad scene,I do it in pr

Sometimes I felt lonely because I pushed people away for so long that I honestly didn’t have many close connections left. I was physically isolated and disconnected from the world. Sometimes I felt lonely in a crowded room. This kind of loneliness pierced my soul and ached to the core. I not only felt disconnected from the world, but I also felt like no one ever loved me. Intellectually, I knew that people did, but I still felt that way.

And the world suddenly appeared to me as such an awfully large place, with I so totally alone in it that I could have cried from the bottom of my heart.

No one is calling me. I can’t check the answering machine because I have been here all this time. If I go out, someone may call while I’m out. Then I can check the answering machine when I come back in.

As long as you write, you'll never be lonely.

We are strangers to our own lives, setting out in the dark to look for the adobe of Love which we were meant to know, guided by the Music that wants us to see.

There pass the careless peopleThat call their souls their own:Here by the road I loiter,How idle and alone.Ah, past the plunge of plummet,In seas I cannot sound,My heart and soul and senses,World without end, are drowned.His folly has not fellowBeneath the blue of dayThat gives to man or womanHis heart and soul away.There flowers no balm to sain himFrom east of earth to westThat's lost for everlastingThe heart out of his breast.Here by the labouring highwayWith empty hands I stroll:Sea-deep, til

You are alone, I am alone; we don’t get together why we complain so much.

After listening to a lot of these stories, I began to think that American loneliness is a completely different creature from anything we experience in this country, and it made me glad I was born Japanese. The type of loneliness where you need to keep struggling to accept a situation is fundamentally different from the sort you know you'll get through if you just hang in there.