And yet we couldn’t leave–it was if the rocks were holding us there. I mean, they were only rocks. But for some reason, those rocks made lonely feel good.

In good company your thoughts run, in solitude your thought is still; it goes deeper and makes for itself a deeper groove, delves. Delve meansa ‘dig with a spade’; it means hard work. In talk...

Spending too much time in one’s individual silo can produce pride, isolation, and a stagnated ministry.

He was lonely because he could imagine himself as anything but himself and as anywhere but where he was. His competitiveness and self-centeredness cut him off from any thought of shared life. He wanted to...

Being alone is much better than being around negative people out of loneliness or desperation.

Always remember that you were once alone, and the crowd you see in your life today are just as unecessary as when you were alone.

The LakeIn spring of youth it was my lotTo haunt of the wide world a spotThe which I could not love the less-So lovely was the lonelinessOf a wild lake, with black rock bound,And the...

I used to be a poet.My words were traded in marketplaces like pieces of gold.Merchants bought my verses for as much as they paid for saffron and Indian jade.Now I am old…drunk on wine and...

In our hearts… there must abide some pity for those people who have always felt themselves to be separate from even their most familiar surroundings, those people who either are foreigners or who suffer a...

You’re a mystery.

The consequences of seeking popularity is not only the chronic feeling of lonliness, but a desire to hide your face from the eyes of the universe.

The Abandoned ValleyCan you understand being alone so longyou would go out in the middle of the nightand put a bucket into the wellso you could feel something down theretug at the other end of...

When our heart is closed, it can create a lonely and isolated feeling together with the attitude: “Nobody loves me” or “Nobody cares about me”, which can make it hard for other people to love...

It’s easier to runReplacing this pain with something numbIt’s so much easier to goThan face all this pain here all alone.

No person, trying to take responsibility for her or his identity, should have to be so alone. There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep, and still be counted as warriors.

me … no me .. gone is gone , and i’m gone .. alone is alone .. it’s so bad to feel alone , but i’m alone .. me , no more .. no more...

For a second, two seconds, they had exchanged an equivocal glance, and that was the end of the story. But even that was a memorable event, in the locked loneliness in which one had to...

Family can’t understand feeling of a child by giving money to him/her.you can understand the child feeling by talking with him/her

Like most cities, London could be a lonely place…

Aye, though he loved her from his soul with such a self denying love as woman seldom wins; he spoke from first to last of Martin.

The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.

There are times when I can find myself in a book, too, for two or three hours. But afterward I have such an urge to go out and reach for other people. Very often they’re...

Alone, alone, all, all alone, Alone on a wide wide sea! And never a saint took pity on My soul in agony.

I still think that the greatest suffering is being lonely, feeling unloved, just having no one… That is the worst disease that any human being can ever experience.

I have outlasted all desire,My dreams and I have grown apart;My grief alone is left entire,The gleamings of an empty heart.The storms of ruthless dispensationHave struck my flowery garland numb,I live in lonely desolationAnd wonder...

The threat of rain appears to have nothing to do with Joao Elvas’s desire to be alone, and one must not forget that, strange as it may seem, some men can spend their entire life...

For a long time, I thought I was good at relationships because I was charming.

Loneliness clarifies. Here silence standsLike heat. Here leaves unnoticed thicken, Hidden weeds flower, neglected waters quicken, Luminously-peopled air ascends; And past the poppies bluish neutral distance Ends the land suddenly beyond a beach Of shapes...

It’s not your enemies who condemn you to solitude, it’s your friends

I used to feel so alone in the city. All those gazillions of people and then me, on the outside. Because how do you meet a new person? I was very stunned by this for...

The winter drove them mad. It drove every man mad who had ever lived through it; there was only ever the question of degree. The sun disappeared, and you could not leave the tunnels, and...

I agree with Proust in this, he says, that books create their own silences in ways that friends rarely do. And the silence that grows palpable when one has finished a canto of Dante, he...

I’ll live out my whole life as a voice with no one listening.

un-loved” when (from his perspective) he has dedicated his life to their welfare?Some of these men will express their lack of vitality and emotional engagement though endless service. They are hyperaware of the moods, needs...

The fear of being alone is a great obstacle to attracting the relationship that is right for you.

I think he just loved being with the bears because they didn’t make him feel bad. I get it too. When he was with the bears, they didn’t care that he was kind of weird,...

The strange thing about loneliness is that we feel it most intently when we are with people. Loneliness is the knowing in our heart that we were created to really, truly know each other in...

One real meeting is much better than a thousand internet or social media words.

From that time on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again, never miss the lack of intimate friends. Books became her friends and there was one for every mood....

Webs of deceit were not only tangled, they were also very lonely.

She wore his flowerIn her hairScent of amberSweetened the airHer dress was whiteHer feet bareHe found heavenWaiting thereShe is aliveIn his painful sigh…

A woman who had fallen out of love with her life

In tragedy and despair, when an endless night seems to have fallen, hope can be found in the realization taht the companion of night is not another night, that the companion of night is day,...

Just five minutes, God, I chant like some hostage negotiator on the brink of a resolution. Five minutes alone. Please, please. Please.

I need to figure out the secret. I need to work out how to keep things flying back to me instead of always flying away.

She’s even been practicing making out with the back of her hand. Which was about as effective as tickling yourself. It’s why you needed other fingers, other tongues. Only other people can make you feel...

Some people are like swings…They give us an exciting thing to do for a while..Thereafter leave us alone, dizzy and not very far ahead in life…

Prime numbers are divisible only by 1 and by themselves. They hold their place in the infinite series of natural numbers, squashed, like all numbers, between two others, but one step further than the rest....

We affect one another quite enough merely by existing. Whenever the stars cross, or is it comets? fragments pass briefly from one orbit to another. On rare occasions there is total collision, but most often...

It is better to be alone than to become a person that loses his soul to the fear of loneliness.