I guess I’ve been waiting so long I’m looking for perfection. That makes it tough.

She might get lonely at times. But that was to be expected. The only way to stop those feelings was to live a life devoted to others. That was her true purpose in life. She...

To love and not be loved; is to die and not be dead

O, great wise man,’ she said, ‘I have been wondering so many things. Is life more than sitting at home doing the same thing over and over? Wise man, is life more than watching one’s...

Only the dying know what real loneliness is.

Anyone who knows how scary it is to be alone, can’t help loving others.” ~Rin Sohma

El gran proyecto global de nuestro tiempo es la competencia y es por ello que el individuo permanece en gran medida solo en el mundo.

My shadow is tired walking with me; but I have yet to be bored walking with myself, all by myself…

Real relief from loneliness requires the cooperation of at least one other person, and yet the more chronic our loneliness becomes, the less equipped we may be to entice such cooperation.

The only place I’ve felt was really my home is my cabin up north. There’s something in the water there that connects me to that place. There’s also this sense of isolation and loneliness about...

Because it hardly ends with falling in love. Just the opposite. I don’t need to tell you, Your Honor, I sense that you understand true loneliness. How you fall in love and it’s there that...

I need the pain of loneliness to make my imagination work.

How could I have been so ignorant? she thinks. So stupid, so unseeing, so given over to carelessness. But without such ignorance, such carelessness, how could we live? If you knew what was going to...

He could only consider me as the living corpse of a would-be suicide, a person dead to shame, an idiot ghost.

The loneliness I endured during that time of my life is something I hope never to experience again.It’s more than just the feeling of being isolated. I was disconnected mentally, physically and emotionally from the...

I fall in love with Paraíso. It’s like a giant playground where I’m never scolded for running around recklessly, where I’m almost overwhelmed with the amount of attention and love I receive from Mami’s family....

I hadn’t talked to myself in a while, but then again, I was all alone. I was my only true supporter. And loneliness is a bitch.

It seems to him there area thousand bars, and behind the bars, no world.

The morgue is a Victorian update of a system established by Alfred the Great. It’s the place where certain deaths are resolved – those where the cause is unclear or is the result of some...

One evening he was in his room, his brow pressing hard against the pane, looking, without seeing them, at the chestnut trees in the park, which had lost much of their russet-coloured foliage. A heavy...

People claim that love is the deepest feeling, but don’t you believe it. Loneliness is the most affecting of human emotions. Nothing makes life more vivid. If you wish to live in the moment, I...

Do you have a shoulder to cry on?Someone who would listen to your deepest woes without judging you?Or is it just you and the image in the mirror?

The house was left; the house was deserted. It was left like a shell on a sandhill to fill with dry salt grains now that life had left it. The long life seemed to have...

Be my friendHold me, wrap me upUnfold meI am small and needyWarm me upAnd breathe me

I know in a way I never knew before that there is nowhere for me to go, nothing for me to do, and no one for me to know. The voice in my head keeps...

.in biggest silence, you hear loudest voices..

I learned the strange art of loneliness, the weathered yearning that swells and passes, and swells and passes, when you walk a trail alone.

To an optimist loneliness is freedom, to all others it is prison.

Lonely is the world largely for those who have earned the wealth a lot or who have learned the truth a lot. The former never acknowledges it and the later never experiences it.

Dad? Dad, no. No. I can’t. I can’t. Why are you saying these things?””Because I can’t stand watching all that loneliness that lives inside you.

În momentul ăla moartea mi s-a părut tristă. De fapt, nu moartea. Mai mult ideea de înmorm ntare. Tu mori, să zicem. Vin familia, prietenii cu tine p nă la cimitir, te bagă în păm...

Tennis is the loneliest sport

…until that moment I had not understood that this was a story about lonely people, about absence and loss, and that that was why I had taken refuge in it until it became confused with...

I don’t reckon misery loves any damn thing at all.

It is a very strange sensation to inexperience youth to feel itself quite alone the world, cut adrift from every connection, uncertain whether the port to which it is bound can be reached, and prevented...

A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.

I put my hands behind my head and lay on my back, trying to hold on to the memories of my family. Their faces seemed to be far off somewhere in my mind, and to...

All of us are lonely at some point or another, no matter how many people surround us. And then, we meet someone who seems to understand. She smiles, and for a moment the loneliness disappears....

Pale winter sun Is beatin’ the ground Why’m I throwin’ away The best thing that I’ve found My young heart’s in tatters and I’m sureThat it will be a long time healing It’s so hard...

…maybe she’s a slut because she’s lonely, she’s sad, she’s hoping someone or something will make the lonely and sad go away.It won’t, of course. It never does. But nonetheless, there’s not a girl who’s...

In the basement, with Ruth, I began to learn that anger, hate, fear and loneliness are all one button awaiting the touch of just a single finger to set them blazing toward destruction.

Today the individual has become the highest form, and the greatest bane, of artistic creation. The smallest wound or pain of the ego is examined under a microscope as if it were of eternal importance....

I’m here. I love you. I don’t care if you need to stay up crying all night long, I will stay with you. If you need the medication again, go ahead and take it –...

Before that experience, I had often felt the kind of alone that comes from the suspicion that you are not only genetically different from those around you, but different in your very soul…[then] I was...

The people you think are the happiest are usually the saddest; that’s because they see more and feel deeper than others do. They are the sensitive and they see beyond the veil of what’s tangible...

…I’ve come to realize that the only truths that matter to me are the ones I don’t, and can’t, understand. What’s mysterious, ambiguous, inexplicable. What doesn’t fit into a story, what doesn’t have a story....

My aloneness had never bothered me; I hadn’t even been aware of it. But now it overwhelmed me. The awareness washed over me with painful sharpness and deep grief. Now that I had company.

You are everything that I don’t have.

That’s why; he’s worried about how his life is turning out, and he’s lonely, and lonely people are the bitterest of them all.

Loneliness can make you feel that you have a kingdom in darkness.