But in spite of my great desire for intimacy, I’ve always been a loner. Perhaps when the longing for connection is as strong as it is in me, when the desire is for something so...

Even the loneliest and most solitary in the universe… the very cold space dust… will eventually come together to form a star.

Love is something totally new every day, but pleasure is not, pleasure has continuity. Love is always new, and therefore it is its own eternity.

Brianna peered through the large window into the sea of plexiglass cradles. Each infant, so small and precious, belonged to someone. Someone who cared for them. Someone who loved them. Brianna sniffled and turned away,...

Loneliness is a hell of a drug.

Solitude is indeed dangerous for a working intelligence. We need to have around us people who think and speak. When we are alone for a long time we people the void with phantoms

Betrayal is too kind a word to describe a situation in which a father says he loves his daughter but claims he must teach her about the horrors of the world in order to make...

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

I shuffle along, letting the current pull me, and i have the sense that I am like a rat caught in a maze of tunnels, moving endlessly toward some promise of…of what? Light? Life? Cheese?

Home. the word always had air quotes around it in her mind. She’d done what she could to make her flat cozy, filling it with art, books, ornate lanterns, and a Persian carpet as soft...

I am lonely, sometimes, but I dare say it’s good for me…

Because, once alone, it is impossible to believe that one could ever have been otherwise. Loneliness is an absolute discovery.

Every avalanche was once a lonely snowflake, every flood was once an aching raindrop.

Jason knew his life would never be the same again. British intelligence now had an ace up their sleeve, and Jason had to overcome his fears and deal with the secret world he was now...

I want to dive in the deepest trench, get locked in the darkest room,get lost in the biggest maze,travel longest to the furthest placebut keep my heart on the safest place…

Noli me tangere,noli me legere,noli me videre,noli me

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...

And I was incapable of living all by myself in those lodgings where I didn’t know a soul. It terrified me to sit by myself quietly in my room. I felt frightened, as if I...

Walking by yourself in the rain is for college kids who think loneliness makes poets.

Be faithful to the unknown, plan for it by expecting it rather than waiting for it to knock you down. I believe your husband will take care of you, for he is a hardworking sensible...

Are the dead as lonesome as the living?

Too bad I didn’t know you back then, I would have come and rescued you.” Like he was Prince Charming or something. Which he is, in a way, because he rescued me from the simple,...

I can’t deceive myself that out of the bare stark realization that no matter how enthusiastic you are, no matter how sure that character is fate, nothing is real, past or future, when you are...

All my life I have been the sort of person in whom people confide. And all my life I have been flattered by this role – grateful for the frisson of importance that comes with...

A radio was playing quietly. Nobody was listening. It was there to drown out the silence.

paradise seemed further away than India, but Hell had become a bit closer

Not belonging is a terrible feeling. It feels awkward and it hurts, as if you were wearing someone else’s shoes.

I have a scar-a faint gouge in my knee from when I fell down on the sidewalk as a child. It’s always seemed stupid to me that none of the pain I’ve experienced has left...

It’s hard to imagine, seeing all of us breathing yet one day each of us shall be gone, leaving memories.

Loneliness is a crowded room

I’ve never been in love. I’ve dreamt of it day and night, but my heart is like a fine piano no one can play because the key is lost.

All people are lonely in some ways. Some people are lonely in all ways.”Now, Voyager” – Movie, 1942.

I had the impression that her place was near mine, but even by bus it took about twenty minutes. She lived alone in an apartment house, square and white like a block of tofu, on...

Being a good host offsets the deprivation and loneliness of my youth.

When loneliness is a constant state of being, it harkens back to a childhood wherein neglect and abandonment were the landscape of life.

It takes courage to be creative. Just as soon as you have an idea, you become a minority of one.

We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community.

Sylvia had begun her month in New York with princessy pomp and fanfare….Her departure on June 27 was entirely different. She left New York shaken, depleted, and utterly alone.

I used to be fine in my lonelinessbut somethingor someonesnapped me out of itand showed me company. What it’s like to feel at home,and so the going on by myself part wasn’t as easy anymore.Seasons...

There’s little back roads and little towns sometimes I never heard of them. I start to expect the gas station attendants to know me when I arrive. I get excited that I’ve been there before....

Loneliness is more painful than being hurt

You think you’re alone until you realize you’re in it.Now fear is here to stay, love is here for a visit.

It is not they who have closed but I. I’ve cut myself away. I’m alone, and lonely. What frightens me is that I’ve not become lonely now, but have looked inside and seen that I...

It no longer makes me cry and die and tear myself to see her go because everything goes away from me like that now — girls, visions, anything, just in the same way and forever...

Humans are almost always lonely.

sex is the consolation you have when you can’t have love

When he had eaten, Mr. Lecky lay down on his cot, though he did not expect to sleep. The four lanterns continued to shed their thin floods of light. Against the dark, this illumination set...

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

I felt very lonely when they were all there.

Loneliness is a hard thing to handle. I feel it, sometimes. When I do, I want it to end. Sometimes, when you’re near someone, when you touch them on some level that is deeper than...