Now Doon seemed to care for his new friends more than he did for her. Every time she thought about him she felt a thud of pain, like a bruised place inside her.

…he went into the sitting room, put on a Duke Ellington record he had bought after seeing Gene Hackman sitting on the overnight bus in The Conversation to the sound of some fragile piano notes...

Some people say dying alone is a fate worse than death itself. Well, they should try being alone during the living part sometimes. There’s no quicker way to make you wonder why the hell you...

In a world filled with people, some happy, others like me, I feel so all alone.

Loneliness is not the enemy of your joy as long as you know how you should always destroy the pensive mood that remains with you like a friend who never stands up for you when...

sometime am feeling proud to have ma loneliness but, sometime am so feeling lonely.

Loneliness in a crowd of people was the worst kind of loneliness, but she couldn’t help it.

Love was the result of having caught a glimpse of another’s loneliness.

log on” somewhere, and if it is only in cyberspace, that is still far better than nowhere at all. (264)

There is a German word, Sehnsucht, which has no English equivalent; it means ‘the longing for something’. It has Romantic and mystical connotations; C.S. Lewis defined it as the ‘inconsolable longing’ in the human heart...

To deprive a gregarious creature of companionship is to maim it, to outrage its nature. The prisoner and the cenobite are aware that the herd exists beyond their exile; they are an aspect of it....

I bask in that sympathy because it’s nice to have somebody who cares, even if it’s the wrong person for the wrong reasons.

Oh,” Chelsea said.And he stepped back a little and tried again, but Chelsea, distracted now by something—maybe the plant in the far corner, standing and waiting like a person in a dream; or maybe the...

I preferred to look at the sea, which said nothing and never made you feel alone.

Loneliness is that feeling to understand your own Self

And if I’m alone in bed, I will go to the window, look up at the sky, and feel certain that loneliness is a lie, because the Universe is there to keep me company.

The GeraniumWhen I put her out, once, by the garbage pail,She looked so limp and bedraggled,So foolish and trusting, like a sick poodle,Or a wizened aster in late September,I brought her back in againFor a...

Lonely was much better than alone.

A man with a good wife is the luckiest of God’s creatures, and one without must be among the most miserable, I think, the only true blessing of their lives that they don’t know how...

Sometimes I think the loneliness inside of me is going to explode through my skin and sometimes im not sure if crying or screaming or laughing through the hysteria will solve anything at all

Yalnızlık dünyayı doldurmuş. Sevmek, bir insanı sevmekle başlar her şey. Burada her şey bir insanı sevmekle bitiyor.

Smoking is indispensable if one has nothing to kiss

I hate the thought of someone never being missed,’ said Ianto sadly. ‘It’s the ultimate humiliation, surely. So unimportant in life that no one even notices when you die.

Some people are severely lonely, all they can do is accept the single life as an example of being free and happy.

…when you lonely is the best time to pray, to speak to the Lord, and most important, to listen to the Lord…

Explicar con palabras de este mundo que partió de mí un barco llevándome.

Their beauty had always seemed to him like the beauty of pressed flowers – lovely, but dead.

Hey, Hank, I notice all the women around your place lately … good looking stuff; you’re doing all right.””Sam,” I say, “that’s not true; I am one of God’s most lonely men.

I called no one, and no one called me. I was suffocating with loneliness. The pain was almost physical. I felt like tearing myself apart. I wanted to escape from my own skin.

Be my friend and love me, for the world is terrible lonely and I am sad.

When I get lonely these days, I think: So BE lonely, Liz. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience....

… and for the first time he realized the pain inevitable in any human relationship – pain suffered and pain inflicted. How foolish we were to be afraid of loneliness.

Through science, she could reach anyone at anytime around the world, but no one seemed to know what to say.

I used to think I didn’t need anyone. I used to think that I could be complete all alone. I tried to shut my eyes to how frozen I was becoming from the cold shards...

She talked about wanting to be a part of something, wanting to be desired, to be ‘special’, craving to be loved. She talked about experiencing the kind of loneliness so immense it could swallow you...

What’s blacker than black? Does summer shade have a shadow? Is that how loneliness looks and where it lurks?

I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason. It has...

What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear.

I HIDE myself within my flowerThat wearing on your breast,You, unsuspecting, wear me too—And angels know the rest.I hide myself within my flower,That, fading from your vase,You, unsuspecting, feel for meAlmost a loneliness…

There were people everywhere but no one was mine, and I was no one’s.

Cause sometimes what makes you two is shadow and you.

I was feeling lonely without her, but the fact that I could feel lonely at all was consolation. Loneliness wasn’t such a bad feeling. It was like the stillness of the pin oak after the...

Loneliness is the prison of the human spirit. When we are lonely, we pace back and forth in small, shut-in worlds.

It seems perverse that we can be more social than anyone would have thought possible when we are at our most anti-social, locked away from the world and silently staring at a computer screen, but...

I would like to be with you, but I do love my loneliness too.

There was a large crowd around us, and every face in it looked happy. We had little opportunity to talk until we reached the woods, where there were no flowers and no people.

When we learn to speak, we learn to translate.

A person could last a long while without touch, but once someone had experienced the comfort, joy, and sheer relief of another human body close, the desire to experience that again was hard to deny.

What was wrong with me? I had a decent life. I was healthy. I wasn’t starving or maimed by a land mine or orphaned. Yet somehow, it wasn’t enough. I had a hole in me,...

What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.