I can be alone without being lonely. In fact, those times of solitude are necessary respite for a beleaguered soul, set upon by the pressures of life. I need to take whatever moments I can...

There were times when I had great times with my brothers, pillow fights and things, but I was, used to always cry from loneliness.

A person who can hide his tears but can never hide his smile is a Joker.

I’m a lion in a strange land.

A season of loneliness and isolation is when the caterpillar gets its wings. Remember that next time you feel alone.

I’m not like themBut I can pretend

In all our searching, the only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable is each other.

I have hardly anything in common with myself and should stand very quietly in a corner, content that I can breathe.

One day, your beauty will manifest in someone’s eye.

It is beautiful, it is endless, it is full and yet seems empty. It hurts us.

Twilight whippoorwill…Whistle on, sweet deepenerOf dark loneliness

People say they are alone. But to whom do they say that? (Les gens disent qu’ils sont seuls. – Mais à qui le disent-ils?)

There is extraordinary similarities between the Midwest in America and Europe in that there is this sense of vast, open sky and loneliness and cold.

It is lonely when you’re among people, too,” said the snake.

Have you ever considered another type of loneliness; a good and healthy, happy loneliness?

It is as great a thing to love as it is to be loved. Love is not something that can be wasted.

The old gal was only another lonely creature in a world that didn’t care

She pulls up to the drive wayParks the car, Gets Out, Walks up to the door, And embraces me with an iron holdShe is a friend and hugs me the same way she used to,...

The personal desolation Christ is experiencing on the cross is what you and I should be experiencing–but instead, Jesus is bearing it, and bearing it all alone.Why alone?He’s alone so that we might never be...

I was lonelier than I should be, for a woman in love, or half in love.

I think she’s afraid to even hug me now. It’s my fault, but I miss it, Andrew. I miss it so much it aches sometimes, you know?’I do know. I do know, I want to...

Begin. . . where you are, NOT where you want to be. Begin stuck in the doldrums of your false story–if that is where you are. Begin there because, in truth, there is no other...

Experience teaches that the fire of mental grief is intensified by being confined to its own hearth.

Fiction is one of the few experiences where loneliness can be both confronted and relieved. Drugs, movies where stuff blows up, loud parties — all these chase away loneliness by making me forget my name’s...

plus one.” But I did get all worked up, and I spent the evening on the couch, crying.

He liked lonely places, because he never really felt alone.

What a fool she was ever to have imagined that there might be some place in the world where she could sink to the earth with the knowledge that there were people round her who...

I invented adventures for myself and made up a life, so as at least to live in some way.

I’ll never forget how the depression and loneliness felt good and bad at the same time. Still does.

In his or her own way, everyone I saw before me looked happy. Whether they were really happy or just looked it, I couldn’t tell. But they did look happy on this pleasant early afternoon...

The two of them on top of the freezing slide, wordlessly holding hands. Once again they were a ten-year-old boy and girl. A lonely boy, and a lonely girl. A classroom, just after school let...

She had never before minded being alone. Now she dreaded it. When she was alone now she felt so dreadfully alone.

…en todo caso había un solo túnel, oscuro y solitario: el mío.

Let’s just say, by the end of her second quarter Beli could walk down the hall without fear that anyone would crack on her. The downside of this of course was that she was completely...

I am not alone because loneliness is always with me…

I’ve seen the way you’ve been looking at me. Don’t bullshit me, Pat. I live in the addition around back, which is completely separate from the house, so there’s no chance of my parents walking...

It’s just as easy to be lonely in a city as out in the wilderness. Easier, really. It’s harder to get to know someone when you meet in a crowded place. People can freely ignore...

… but she was also bewilderingly lonely… Abra had lost her gift for being alone.

In truth, nothing was the same. She forgot about the stars… and taking notice of the sea. She was no longer filled with all the curiosities of the world and didn’t take much notice of...

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.

When you’re young, you think it’s going to be solved by love. But it never is. Being close-as close as you can get-to another person only makes it clear the impassable distance between you.

Samoća nije živeti sam, samoća je kad nismo sposobni da pravimo društvo nekome ili nečemu što se nalazi duboko u nama, samoća nije usamljeno drvo nasred puste ravnice, to je rastojanje između skrivenih sokova i...

One dead and one alone. That’s how the story ends.

Those who live alone slide into the habit of vertical eating: why bother with the niceties when there’s no one to share or censure? But laxity in one area may lead to derangement in all.

From long experience she knew that she wore her loneliness like armor. Very few people ever recognized it for what it was. To the casual observer it looked very much like arrogance. Sometimes it was.

There’s not a lot to do when you don’t want to do anything.

Wherever you go in the next catastrophéBe it sickroom, or prison, or cemet’ryDo not fear that your stay will besolit’ryCountless souls share your fate,you’ll have company!

The saints were his friends, and blessed him; the monsters were his friends, and guarded him.

Lying is easy. But it’s lonely.””What do you mean?””When you lie to everyone about everything, what’s left? What’s true?””Nothing,” I say.”Exactly.

She realized that being starved for words was the same as being starved for food, because both left a hollow place inside you, a place you needed filled to make it through another day. Rachel...