Many people seek fellowship because they are afraid to be alone…let him who cannot be alone beware of community. He will do harm to himself and to the community. Alone you stood before God when...

No one ever said aloud any of the kinds of things he was so constantly thinking, because no one in the parish, not Alice, not Lady Higgs, not anybody, ever seemed to see the things...

If it’s true what is said, that only the wise discover the wise, then it must also be true that the lone wolf symbolizes either the biggest fool on the planet or the biggest Einstein...

amazing” is supposed to be what life is about. As a result, the windows of time people spend by themselves become these meaningless experiences that don’t really count. It’s filler.

It’s weird to feel like you miss someone you’re not even sure you know.

To you who eat a lot of rice because you’re lonely, To you who sleep a lot because you’re bored, To you who cry a lot because you are sad, I write this down. Chew...

There was one of his lonelinesses coming, one of those times when he walked the streets or sat, aimless and depressed, biting a pencil at his desk. It was a self-absorption with no comfort, a...

The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!

She never wished for the thing what she is experiencing. It is her inner voice that became her enemy.

There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematician that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two...

I purely came over because I thought you looked extremely lonely. You have an extremely sensitive face.

Durum semolina, golden wheat wafting in Italian fields. Can you imagine how astonished the Italians would be if they knew that what they were exporting in 1971 was really loneliness

Half of the time I don’t know what they’re talking about; their jokes seem to relate to a past that everyone but me has shared. I’m a foreigner in the world and I don’t understand...

And the world suddenly appeared to me as such an awfully large place, with I so totally alone in it that I could have cried from the bottom of my heart.

Know that you will eventually have to leave everything behind; the writing will demand it of you.

It’s indifference that breaks hearts, not love.

How lonely I was, even when I was with him. How it felt, him not making love to me, being affectionate, making me feel desired or desirable. How much it bothered me that, even though...

…nothing remained but loneliness and grief…

Life’s harrowing echo only to be faded into exiled loneliness

In the weeks that followed, we amazed ourselves. Our habits slid apart easily…And our very few intimacies were simply discontinued. Where did they go, those things we did? Were they recycled? Did some new couple...

Alone”Lying, thinkingLast nightHow to find my soul a homeWhere water is not thirstyAnd bread loaf is not stoneI came up with one thingAnd I don’t believe I’m wrongThat nobody,But nobodyCan make it out here alone.Alone,...

စီးကရက္လုပ္သူမ်ားကုိ ေက်းဇူးတင္မိ၏ ။ စိတ္ေလလြင့္ခ်ိန္၌ လုပ္စရာအလုပ္တစ္ခုလည္းရ၏ ။ မိုက္မိုက္မဲမဲ အလိပ္ ၅၀ ဝင္ဘူးလည္း တစ္ခါတည္း ဆက္တိုက္ေသာက္ကာ ေအာ့အန္မူးေဝျပီးလည္း ေခါင္းကိုက္ႏိုင္၏ ။ အရက္လို မိန္းမလိုေတာ့ ဆိုးဝါးညစ္ညမ္းသည္ မဟုတ္လို႔ အႏၱရယ္ျဖစ္စရာရွိ၍ ျဖစ္ရလွ်င္လည္း အဆုပ္ေရာဂါႏွင့္ ကင္ဆာသာျဖစ္ႏိုင္သည္မို႔ သန္႔ရွင္း၍ ဣေျႏၵရေသာ လူမမာျဖစ္ႏိုင္ေပေသး၏ ။

An emptiness rules at its core, a rottenness, a silence when one of you retires to bed without saying good night, when you eat together without conversation, when the phone’s passed wordlessly to the other....

People Die…Beauty Fades…Love Changes…And You Will Always Be Alone

But if as you read this book you’re saying to yourself: “I’d rather be miserably married than be alone.” Well young lady, take out your clown shoes and buckle your seat belt – it’s going...

I’m good when I’m alone. I’m comfortable when I’m alone. I can sit and do lots of things all by myself. Sex included.

Mostly she just missed Vaughn. Missed all those quiet, unspectacular moments that, when added up, showed how entwined their lives had become. And right now, she missed being able to phone him, because it would...

Being alone is best. I mean, it’s true, isn’t it? In the end you’ll be absolutely alone; therefore, being alone is natural. If you accept that, nothing bad can happen. That’s why I shut myself...

The opposite of Loneliness is not Togetherness , It’s Intimacy

So many people are shut up tight inside themselves like boxes, yet they would open up, unfolding quite wonderfully, if only you were interested in them.”(Initiation)

People were infected with the concept that happiness was something outside themselves, and a new and powerful form of loneliness was born. Mix loneliness with stress and enervation, and all sorts of madness can occur....

We expect more from technology and less from each other.

…I also believe that introversion is my greatest strength. I have such a strong inner life that I’m never bored and only occasionally lonely. No matter what mayhem is happening around me, I know I...

We all say we hate being misunderstood and how we desperately want to find people who understand us. But it is not lack of compatible people that keeps us lonely. There is no shortage of...

What a difference having a friend makes.

We seek out other people to fight off the loneliness but it’s like we’re children playing at pretend. We are alone in everything we do, Livy. Alone but not without company.

She had become accustomed to being lonely. She was used to walking alone and to being considered ‘different.’ She did not suffer too much.

I was trained to turn loneliness into laziness.

But this gives no proper idea of my feelings at all; and no one that has not lived such a retired stationary life as mine, can possibly imagine what they were: hardly even if he...

People accuse me of falling in love easily. It just means that I’m able to see the beauty in most of the people who cross paths with me and I appreciate it for what it...

…Maybe instead of fire and brimstone, hell is just a feeling of loneliness

It wasn’t the aloneness that Liz minded. It was the silence. It echoed.

It was the shadow of Some one who had gone by long before: of Some one who had gone on far away quite out of reach, never, never to come back. It was bright to...

Over time, loneliness gets inside you and doesn’t go away.

Tunasema uongo kwa sababu hatuna ujasiri wa kusema ukweli. Ukweli hautupi uhuru, unatupa upweke.

The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely.

To be happy to be sad and sad to be happy is to sing an echo in that beautiful language called Sorrow.

I lay in my bed night after night staring at the ceiling and thinking, Why have I survived the war? Why was I the last person in my immediate family to be alive? I didn’t...

The loneliest days are the ones where you keep company with someone you love who can’t hear you.

The house is eerily quiet. All this time I thought silence would be a welcome reprieve, but it’s less comforting than I imagined. The house feels so much bigger and colder than it ever has.