Back at home I spent so much time on my own, but never once felt lonely. Here, even though I see hundreds more people each day, I’ve never felt lonelier.

Sometimes the silence is the loudest thing in the room.

relations are the failures of life..

I didn’t have that kind of friendship, the forever kind of friendship that will last your whole life through, no matter what.

But if she could be here, she probably wouldn’t be here. But that won’t stop me from ordering for two, and if I can’t eat it all I’ll take the leftovers home so I can...

DeWitt: Loneliness leads to nothing good, only detachment. And sometimes the people who most need to reach out are the people least capable of it.

Get married, my friend, you don’t know what it means to live alone, at my age. Nowadays feeling alone fills me with appalling anguish; being alone at home, by the fire, in the evening. It...

…companionship refused is worse than loneliness.

Outside the hospital, I squinted in the harsh morning sunlight. I could hear birds chirping in the tree, but even though I searched for them, they remained hidden from me.

…and the smoke that creeps off the tip of my cigarette and into the dim, scattered strands of light leaking off the moon, in through the clefts in the curtains, is much like my spirit...

Over the wintry forest, winds howl in rage with no leaves to blow.

In the sinking sand,where we’ve come to rest,have I had a hand in your loneliness?

Having a sister or a friend is like sitting at night in a lighted house. Those outside can watch you if they want, but you need not see them. You simply say, “Here are the...

people says loneliness is ugly.i feel it is most productive as much as our career build . to cultivate the other world inside – some way it shows the lessons.

Even in your closest friendships, you’re alone. Maybe it’s your best friend who, in fact, reminds you, just by making it her business to try to know your heart, that no one can – that...

One as deformed and horrible as myself, could not deny herself to me. My companion must be of the same species, and have the same defects… with whom I can live in the interchange of...

The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It’s the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.

Thus it had come about that she had read far more fiction, and far more poetry, those two sanctuaries of the lonely, than most of her kind.

Being brave and being alone aren’t the same thing.

Nobody should have to choose between a cold heart and a dead heart.

Loneliness is a poison, but aloneness is a catalyst.

Bir oyundaymışım da, ebe beni unutup gitmiş gibi. Yıllarca oyunun kaldığı yerden devam etmesini bekleyen bir çaresizdim. Sobelenmek pahasına ortaya çıkıyordum ve kimseler varlığımı umursamıyordu.

This Midwestern sky is the nakedest loneliest sky in America. To escape it, people live inside and underground.

For fear you will be aloneyou do so many thingsthat aren’t you at all.

Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness.

The only way to escape the feeling of loneliness is to just be silent

In viaggio verso Bologna ho pensato a chi diceva di sentire il tempo come un enorme dolore. E ho visto, seduti accanto a me, donne e uomini di malaffari che andavano a guadagnarsi il pane...

Because it’s so hard to be kind to the world when all you’ve ever felt is hate.

They cannot scare me with their empty spacesBetween stars—on stars where no human race is.I have it in me so much nearer homeTo scare myself with my own desert places.

All we had was her room, her stories, and the quiet that settled in as we tried in vain to spread ourselves out and fill the space she’d left behind.

The person whom you really, really love may not be here anymore. And you might be feeling lonely, but, there are people in this world who really, really love you, so shouldn’t that equal it...

loneliness leads you to forbidden lands

My despair is less despair than boredom and loneliness.

The trouble with me is that for a long time I have just been an I person. All people belong to a We except me. Not to belong to a We makes you too lonesome.

She was completely alone in the world. There was no one at all for her. No one in the world who cared whether she lived or died. Sometimes the horror of that thought threatened to...

I don’t know. I got nothing. No house, no people, no place. Maybe that’s troubles. Don’t I say?

At the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep and powerful yearning for union with one’s lost self.

Beyond the boundaries of herself, her parents and the enclosing garden walls, were open fields and other waiting places she still knew nothing of – lies of the land, perhaps. What Katie did know is...

Occasionally, very occasionally, say at four o’clock in the afternoon on a wet Sunday, she feels panic-stricken and almost breathless with loneliness. Once or twice she has been known to pick up the phone to...

I don’t know,” she said. “We used to squabble a lot when we were going together and then engaged and everything, but I thought everything would be so different as soon as you were married....

Outside, across the putrid moat and under the dark mute trees, I would often lie and dream for hours about what I read in the books; and would longingly picture myself amidst gay crowds in...

Companionship is a foreign concept to some people. They fear it as much as the majority of people fear loneliness.

I wanted to wear her as you would a piece of clothing, to fold into her ribs, be a stone in her mouth.

As always when he worked with this much concentration he began to feel a sense of introverting pressure. There was no way out once he was in, no genuine rest, no one to talk to...

When we feel lonely we keep looking for a person or persons who can take our loneliness away. Our lonely hearts cry out, ‘Please hold me, touch me, speak to me, pay attention to me.’...

Oh, the places you’ll go! There is fun to be done!There are points to be scored. There are games to be won.And the magical things you can do with that ballwill make you the winning-est...

When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives.

I wish I could tell you how lonely I am. How cold and harsh it is here. Everywhere there is conflict and unkindness. I think God has forsaken this place. I believe I have seen...

It would be too easy to say that I feel invisible. Instead, I feel painfully visible, and entirely ignored.

Indeed, he could not be long in discovering that people beyond a suspicion of unbalance, or not obviously coveting the moment’s arrest of attention gained them by their statements, never had experience with or knowledge...