My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.

To whom can I expose the urgency of my own passion?…There is nobody—here among these grey arches, and moaning pigeons, and cheerful games and tradition and emulation, all so skilfully organised to prevent feeling alone.

Stories are our gifts to a world that doesn’t see us.

I realize, for the first time, how very lonely I’ve been in the arena. How comforting the presence of another human being can be.

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.

I can go years thinking that it seems impossible that I will ever satisfy that appetite again and then it is easy to satisfy and no one notices or cares, nor does it make me...

I looked briefly up from my notes. I was surrounded by hearts, sectioned and preserved. Hearts with holes. Hearts with leaking valves or thickened walls. Hearts with narrow or transposed aortas. I closed my eyes.

Vienatvė ieško kelionės draugo, neklausdama, kas jis. Kas to nesupranta, tas niekada nebuvo vienišas, o tik vienas.

Halls are full of strangers, even when you recognize the faces.

But even so, every now and then I would feel a violent stab of loneliness. The very water I drink, the very air I breathe, would feel like long, sharp needles. The pages of a...

Perhaps she would have liked to confide all these things to someone. But how tell an undefinable uneasiness, variable as the clouds, unstable as the winds? Words failed her—the opportunity, the courage.

Na enxerga, Saraid dormia. Eile fazia o mesmo com os longos cabelos espalhados pela almofada como um rio de chamas escuras. Junto da fogueira, os homens de Pitnochie mantinham-se silenciosos, enrolados nos seus cobertores. Ninguém...

The high is what you crave, what you would kill for… and believe me, you will lie to yourself until it’s to late to stop.

You think of outside your room, of the streets of the town, the lonely little squares over by the station, of those winter Saturdays all alike.

If our greatest fear is to sink away alone and unremembered, the brutality that time will inflict upon each of us will always run stronger than any river’s murky waves.

Karou wished she could be the kind of girl who was complete unto herself, comfortable in solitude, serene. But she wasn’t. She was lonely, and she feared the missingness within her as if it might...

It was an intensely lonely moment, like all of eighth grade condensed into one claustrophobic second.

My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues.

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.

I had grazed along the surface of her actions and made deep judgments. Rejecting someone because you couldn’t understand their love, that was a new one. The more I thought about it the longer the...

If you have never found yourself, the best place to look is in your loneliness, and rock-bottom is even better.