Barbaric is letting the woman suffer to be alone for the rest of her life.

…he is unlike the other customers. They sense it too, and look at him with hard eyes, eyes like little metal studs pinned into the white faces of young men […] In the hush his...

Rain makes me feel less alone. All rain is, is a cloud- falling apart, and pouring its shattered pieces down on top of you. It makes me feel good to know I’m not the only...

if it was time that made me lost what we were, then i hate time…

Even now it comes as a shock if by chance I notice in the street a face resembling someone I know however slightly, and I am at once seized by a shivering violent enough to...

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...

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...

Now here you go againYou say you want your freedomWell who am I to keep you downIt’s only right that you shouldPlay the way you feel itBut listen carefully to the soundOf your lonelinessLike a...

Whoever wrote”I’d rather have loved and lost than never have loved at all”Should be shot in the face.Funny thing is,I’d rather take their place

I know where I came from—but where did all you zombies come from?I felt a headache coming on, but a headache powder is one thing I do not take. I did once—and you all went...

If he’s alone then somewhere on earth I’m alone too.. We are far but doing the same thing.. Missing the same love and crying for the same reason.. That’s what matters now.

And as I thought about the body of Ray Brower in this light- or lack of it- what I felt was not queasiness or fear that he would suddenly appear before us, a green and...

…But the heart is not a computer that can be upgraded so quickly and easily with the latest version of love. Love cannot be sealed hermetically inside a tight box like any other on the...

Being alone is better than sitting next to a lover and feeling lonely.

To the turtle, the concept of “loneliness” is incomprehensible. She always has been alone, and any other social state is unthinkable.

Looking at her, thinking of her transported him, which struck him as vile because now it was hard for him not to despise the icy serenity of their earlier relations. And he knew that he...

His act was rather that of a harmless lunatic than an enemy. We were not so new to the country as not to know that the solitary life of many a plainsman had a tendency...

I’m everyone everywhere with you without you unbound set free in limbo lost at sea.

In his face there came to be a brooding peace that is seen most often in the faces of the very sorrowful or the very wise. But still he wandered through the streets of the...

Solitude is the most fertile land that yields the bumper crop of minds creativity

But to think there was meaning, a scheme to things, well, that was quite beyond her philosophical reach. She feared as she always had, that all that was ever meant was loneliness, hard work, striving...

But there was something terrifying taking over her thoughts, and it wouldn’t leave. Out of seven billion sharing the planet with her, not one of them knew what was going through her head. Not one...

When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that’s when I think life is over.

I had failed him; I knew it. But I could do no more. It was beyond my strength.That night, I think, he explored the uttermost depths of his loneliness.

When you’re surrounded by all these people, it can be lonelier than when you’re by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don’t feel like you can trust anyone or talk...

Todo lo que tengo lo llevo conmigo. O: todo lo mío lo llevo conmigo. He llevado todo lo que tenía. No era mío. Era o algo destinado a otras finalidades o de otra persona. […]Llevo...

We are all so afraid, we are all so alone, we all so need from the outside the assurance of our own worthiness to exist. So, for a time, if such a passion come to...

There’s something I want to say in this space, but it’s an emptiness where there’s usually a hug. — Colin Morton to Mary Lee Bragg, 1972

There’s a book of poetryin the lines of my handsthat no one wants to read

All human beings are alone. No other person will completely feel like we do, think like we do, act like we do. Each of us is unique, and our aloneness is the other side of...

Talking to strangers sounded like talking to no one, which Henry had some firsthand experience in- in real life. It was lonely. Almost as lonely as Lake View Cemetery, where he’d buried Ethel.

Dr August, there is no greater isolation a man may experience than to be lonely in a crowd. He may nod, and smile, and say the right thing, but even by this pretence his soul...

There had never been any more between us thanchance had brought. But perhaps that makes a greater indebtednessand binds closer than much else

My fear of loneliness is like a disease.

Sometimes I feel so- I don’t know – lonely. The kind of helpless feeling when everything you’re used to has been ripped away. Like there’s no more gravity, and I’m left to drift in outer...

When other girls were dreaming about love, she dreamt of love too, but in an entirely different context – the ones they took for granted.

Looking at the rain through my window,I can’t find an answer to this merciless solitude—The same solitude that sprouts from my eyes,A bittersweet tear which haunts me like a shadow.During evenings like this my life...

Lonely people have enthusiasms which cannot always be explained. When something strikes them as funny, the intensity and length of their laughter mirrors the depth of their loneliness, and they are capable of laughing like...

All the hungers will kill, but hunger of loneliness turns you into a philosopher.

I couldn’t be with people and I didn’t want to be alone. Suddenly my perspective whooshed and I was far out in space, watching the world. I could see millions and millions of people, all...

I feel too much. That’s what’s going on.’ ‘Do you think one can feel too much? Or just feel in the wrong ways?’ ‘My insides don’t match up with my outsides.’ ‘Do anyone’s insides and...

I feel there’s a funny little hole in me that wasn’t there before, like a splinter in your finger, but this is somewhere above my stomach.

Wenn man mit dem falschen Menschen zusammen ist, ist man einsamer, als wenn man allein ist. Oder genauso einsam, nur auf eine andere Art und Weise.

I could be the lone Eskimo, friend of whales and seals.”The Panopticon

This bed yawnsbeneath the weightof our absent selves.

Despite how lonely or broken down you might feel, we need you with us helping to make the world better, kinder and safer, especially for the little girls coming up.

We can’t underestimate the value of silence. We need to create ourselves, need to spend time alone. If you don’t, you risk not knowing yourself and not realizing your dreams.

But there it is: Everyone is alone, for life, and maybe that’s not such a bad thing.

Books make the best ersatz friendships.

Your never alone , look around you there are so many objects , they don’t live but are there in your presence , your never truly alone