I could be the lone Eskimo, friend of whales and seals.”The Panopticon

This bed yawnsbeneath the weightof our absent selves.

Despite how lonely or broken down you might feel, we need you with us helping to make the world better, kinder and safer, especially for the little girls coming up.

We can’t underestimate the value of silence. We need to create ourselves, need to spend time alone. If you don’t, you risk not knowing yourself and not realizing your dreams.

But there it is: Everyone is alone, for life, and maybe that’s not such a bad thing.

Books make the best ersatz friendships.

Your never alone , look around you there are so many objects , they don’t live but are there in your presence , your never truly alone

Poverty only tries men’s souls. It is loneliness that breaks the heart.

Don’t you understand? Listen carefully to what I’m saying. If you do, you’ll get it. you can grasp this easily. In short…in short, I shut myself in because I’m lonely. Because I don’t want to...

Is this how it is for a species that senses it is going extinct? Is there a feeling of loneliness, or unease, each morning, upon awakening?

There comes a time when something changes you… No matter the impact… Where the world no longer beats in time with you. You no longer feel amongst the fray.. And the feeling of loneliness is...

After listening to a lot of these stories, I began to think that American loneliness is a completely different creature from anything we experience in this country, and it made me glad I was born...

In that high place in the darkness the two oddly sensitive human atoms held each other tightly and waited. In the mind of each was the same thought. “I have come to this lonely place...

To be insular is to be independent. But it is also to be alone.

My father could talk about the Romany way of life and its culture. He could talk about freedom and the Scottish spirit. But that was all he could talk about. I was desperate for someone...

I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano!

And the poor lady, so small in her black satin, shrivelled up and sallow, with her funny corkscrew curls, took the little boy on her lap and put her arms around him and wept as...

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.

Being all alone is like the feeling you get when you stand at the mouth of a large river on a rainy evening and watch the water flow into the sea. Have you ever done...

Dark hair on a white pillow, an ache inside, his face a reflection in her eye.

The only person I really wanted to talk about Augustus Waters was Augustus Waters.

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.