But it seems that I can tackle the most esoteric of recipes, the most elusive puff pastry, as long as I do not have to count the empty layers of loneliness building up inside.

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

My sleep wasn’t peaceful, though. I have the sense of emerging from a world of dark, haunted places where I traveled alone.

You build walls to fortify your heart,and blame on others for your loneliness.

What was it – this implacable remoteness, this inability to surrender herself to the warmth and comradely feelings of others? Could being an academic star, being applauded over and over again as a prodigy, take...

We all need something to believe in. Without those beliefs we’re just floating particles moving through the space time continuum.

But most days,I wander around feeling invisible.Like I’m a speck of dustfloating in the airthat can only be seenwhen a shaft of light hits it.

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

Most of the conversations we are ever likely to have with people are the things we do not and cannot say

You could choose anywhere instead of this house. I know I wouldn’t be here if I didn’t have to be.” The spider said nothing. Come to think of it, Callum was sure the spider hadn’t...

Jamie enjoyed solitude, but loneliness was a constant ache.

I woke up feeling alone, so lonely. The night before, I had cried myself to sleep. I lay there on the floor, listening to the tube trains passing beneath me. I thought, All those hundreds...

I never really understood the word ‘loneliness’. As far as I was concerned, I was in an orgy with the sky and the ocean, and with nature.

Loneliness Ends With Love

I am not meant to be alone and without you who understands.

The mainland can stretch until it breaks at the weakest points, and those weaknesses are called faults. Each island represented a victory and a defeat: it had either pulled itself free or pulled too hard...

It’s a funny thing in my job: you remain perpetually lonely in a world where loneliness is the rarest commodity.

In a taxi speeding uptown on the West Side Highway, I let my thoughts drift below the surface of the Hudson until it finally occurs to me that feelings fill the gaps created by the...

Do you think you can cause something to happen just from wanting it so much?’ she asked. ‘I don’t get what you mean. Does this have to do with your dad?’ asked Frannie. ‘Not really....

I want to be alone… with someone else who wants to be alone.

Camus had said in his ‘Carnets’ that the lives of others appear always, from the outside, to have a completion our own dismally lacks. Only when we understand this as a projection – that our...

You do not have to be alone. The world never inflicts loneliness upon us. That is something we choose or reject by ourselves.

Human beings, in point of fact, are lonely by nature, and one should feel sorry for them and love them and mourn with them. It is certain that people would understand one another better and...

You never walk alone. Even the devil is the lord of flies.

Two fears alternate in marriage, of loneliness and of bondage. The dread of loneliness being keener than the fear of bondage, we get married. For one person who fears being thus tied there are four...

To be the only one who knows is lonely. No wonder Solomon, the wisest man, needed 900 concubines.

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...

She learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still.