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Quotes About Loneliness

Being in a foreign country means walking a tightrope high above the ground without the net afforded a person by the country where he has family, colleagues, and friends, and where he can easily say what he has to say in a language he has known since childhood.
~ Kundera, Milan
It was a lonely life to lead, for I had nothing to think of, having been made such a little while before.
~ L. Frank Baum
Everyone loved her, but her greatest sorrow was that she could find no one to love in return, since all the men were much too stupid and ugly to mate with one so beautiful and wise.
~ L. Frank Baum
did not like to be deserted this way. So I tried to walk after them. But my feet would not touch the ground, and I was forced to stay on that pole. It was a lonely life to
~ L. Frank Baum
No one intended to leave Martha alone that afternoon, but it happened that everyone was called away, for one reason or another.
~ L. Frank Baum
Seems to me you LIKE bein' lonesome, observed Cap'n Bill. I can't say I like it, exactly, replied the Duck, but since it seems to be my fate, I'm rather proud of it.
~ L. Frank Baum
Well, in a way she might be right. It might be better if he were married...It all came back to the fact that he was sure nobody would ever understand him as well as he understood himself.
~ L. M. Montgomery
Nobody cared anything for me or wanted to be bothered with me. I should have been miserable if it hadn't been for that stange little dream-life of mine, wherein I imagined all the friends and love I craved. But when I came to Green Gables everything was changed. And then I met you. You don't know what your friendship meant to me. I want to thank you here and now, dear, for the warm and true affection you've always given me.
~ L. M. Montgomery
Scary is time passing and sickness and dying and regret and isolation and loneliness and relationship problems - as opposed to a guy in a hockey mask, which didn't seem that scary.
~ Charlie Kaufman
If you feel lonely within your relationship, pay attention to this inner warning signal!
~ Doreen Virtue
When I wake you're never there, but when I sleep you're everywhere.
~ Michelle Branch
I live in L.A., I go on tour all the time, I'm in New York half the year - it's very hard to be in a relationship.
~ Aziz Ansari
She stays in the same spot, anchored by the profound, desperate loneliness of a bad relationship.
~ David Levithan
I've been single for so long that I'm scared of being in a relationship.
~ Alia Shawkat
I'm a relationship girl, I like relationships, so I just miss being in one and chilling. And not dating.
~ Bella Thorne
How quickly people can forget you, until they want something from u" and when they are done with you, you are not even a stranger but an invisible person who doesn't even exist.
~ honeya
The more man realises his humanity, the lonelier he feels.
~ Ali Shariati
The trouble with being a god is that you've got no one to pray to.
~ Terry Pratchett, Small Gods
When God became lonelyhe created man, or was itwhen man became lonelyhe created God.
~ Melanie Exler
no time agoor else a lifewalking in the darki met christjesus)my heartflopped overand lay stillwhile he passed(asclose as i'm to youyes closermade of nothingexcept loneliness.
~ E.E. Cummings
I was always taught to respect my elders and I've now reached the age when I don't have anybody to respect.
~ George Burns
You will go with me everywhere. When I'm dreaming, you still share my lonely nights.
~ Gordon Lightfoot
You are the promised kiss of springtime that makes the lonely winter seem long. You are the breathless hush of evening that trembles on the brink of a lovely song.
~ Frank Sinatra
I took a photo of us, mid-embrace. When I am old and alone I will remember that I once held something truly beautiful.
~ Joe Dunthorne