It’s all right. I’m not upset. After all, they were just things. When you’ve lost your mother and your father, you can’t care so much about things, can you?

I know that the night is not the same as the day: that all things are different, that the things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist,...

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’re afraid to be alone, you are alone.

I wish I could say we all lived happily ever after. I can’t. But I can say we lived. Our love for Nate lives, and he’s left us this piece of himself in his art;...

He couldn’t remember the last time human hands had willingly touched him. Not true. Miranda had. She had touched him as if he were just a man. He had lived on those moments ever since,...

I ain’t got no people. I seen the guys that go around on the ranches alone. That ain’t no good. They don’t have no fun. After a long time they get mean. They get wantin’...

My reputation is largely the creature of the kindly imaginings of my flock, whom I chose not to disillusion, in part because the truth had the kind of pathos in it that would bring on...

You are my favourite part of me.

The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we are alone.

the path is lost, and I’ve become part of the wreckage − another meaningless casualty.

Alone you’re refinding a glittering, a clarity, you’re finding your distilled self. …You think of the two types of aloneness you’ve known recently: this wonderful, sparkly, soul-refreshing type, and the despairing loneliness that sucks the...

She was like a lone angel floating above the surface of the earth, laughing with delight because she could fly but crying out of loneliness.

There is a huge sense of loneliness as people leave villages and move to cities. It’s hard to find that human connection as you move away from where you started.

Grief denied will surface in borrowed clothes, the mad, sad clothes of paranoia, fear or loneliness

One by one they are being picked off around him: in his small circle of colleagues the ratio slowly grows top-heavy, more ghosts, more each winter, and fewer living… and with each one, he thinks...

I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good books,...

She closes my door behind her and all the petty stresses of life reappear, eager to make up for lost time. I’ve developed a phobia of that door closing for the last time, of losing...

I didn’t want any flowers, I only wanted To lie with my hands turned upand be utterly empty.How free it is, you have no idea how free – The peacefulness is so big it dazes...

Loneliness, dejection, the contempt or pity of people around you–these are unpleasant feelings. But they are precisely the things that produce genuine Dark Ones.

No I am not Prince Hamlet nor was meant to be Am an attendant lord one that will do To swell a progress start a scene or two Advise the prince no doubt an easy...

I have no privacy. But I feel so alone.

We are like puzzle pieces who are perfectly suited to make a giant picture together, but we are assembling ourselves in the dark.

To be a human being means to be lonely.To go on becoming a person means exploring new modes of resting in our loneliness.

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.

I would prefer to die than to be depressed for depression can hurt you everyday and it’ll last for a lifetime while on dying, you can only feel pain the moment you’ll die.

Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not.

My father moved out a week later. I hugged him at our front door and couldn’t bear to watch him leave with so much luggage.

It was so odd what brought out tenderness in people. It was never what you have expected.

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

I can hear your angered silence,Taste your bitterness.Now I smell your vengeance,Yet see your lonely emptiness.I am your broken heart.

Over the Rainbow” straight into my ear, things changing, falling apart, fading, another year, a few more moves, a hard person who doesn’t give a fuck, a boredom so monumental it humbles, arrangements so fleeting...

l(aleaffalls)oneliness

You’re not discontent for wanting to be in a relationship, you’re just human.

Je fais mon lit et mon ménage; I seek my dinner in a restaurant; my supper takes care, of itself; I pass days laborious and loveless; nights long and lonely; I am ferocious, and bearded...

Loneliness becomes a lover, solitude a darling sin.

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.

[A]s though mindful of the wife of Lot, who looked back from behind him, thou deliveredst me first to the sacred garments and monastic profession before thou gavest thyself to God. And for that in...

What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one’s self?

Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

IMr Heathcliff, you have nobody to love you; and, however miserable you make us, we shall still have the revenge of thinking that your cruelty arises from your greater misery! You are miserable, are you...

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

Like you’re riding a train at night across some vast plain, and youcatch a glimpse of a tiny light in a window of a farmhouse. In aninstant it’s sucked back into the darkness behind and...

Oh! To live alone, always alone, in the midst of the crowd that surrounds me, without a word of love ever coming to gladden my soul, without a friendly hand reaching out to me!

There are those that wonder which is worse: Not being able to reach out or not having anyone to reach for. There are some that ponder which is the greater ache: Not being able to...

People who do a job that claims to be creative have to be alone to recharge their batteries. You can’t live 24 hours a day in the spotlight and remain creative. For people like me,...

I never wanted to be alone, but I always opted for loneliness. I am an emotional, sensitive and expressive creature. I cannot detach my feelings, never could I control. I fall in love and I...

Lucian was beginning to get used to hearing her small observations at night. More than anything, he realized he liked her voice in the dark. It made him feel less lonely.

The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.

I brought the birdcages to the windows.I opened the windows, and opened the birdcages.I poured the fish down the drain.I took the dogs and cats downstairs and removed their collars.I released the insects onto the...