Quotes About Loneliness

George II proved to be no more popular than his father, either during his lifetime or after it. He cared for nobody, and nobody cared for him,

Loneliness is not about how many people you have around. It's about whether or not you feel connected. Whether or not you're able to be yourself.

The lonely feeling comes from not feeling known.

I felt as if I were watching myself from above, unable to comprehend the happiness of the people around me.

Loneliness is not about how many people you have around. It's about whether or not you feel connected. Whether

Loneliness is not about how many people you have around. It's bout whether or not you feel connected. Whether or not you're able to be yourself.

Living in a vacuum sucks.

We lie under the sheet after making love, speaking of loneliness relieved in a book relived in a book so on that page the clot and fissure of it appears words of a man in pain a naked word entering the clot a hand grasping through bars: deliverance What happens between us has happened for centuries we know it from literature still it happens sexual jealousy outflung hand beating bed dryness of mouth after panting there are books that describe all this and they are useless

You grieve in loneliness, and if I understand you fuck in loneliness.

The liar has many friends, and leads an existence of great loneliness.

If I'm lonely it must be the loneliness of waking first, of breathing dawns' first cold breath on the city of being the one awake in a house wrapped in sleep If I'm lonely it's with the rowboat ice-fast on the shore in the last red light of the year that knows what it is, that knows it's neither ice nor mud nor winter light but wood, with a gift for burning from "Song

If I'm lonely it's with the rowboat ice-fast on the shore in the last red light of the year that knows what it is, that knows it's neither ice nor mud nor winter light but wood, with a gift for burning

Those years you never looked at any of us. Staring into your own eyelids. Like you saw a light there. Can you see me now?

Who neither touched nor spoke? whose nape, whose finger-ends nervelessly lied the hours away?

Marriage is lonelier than solitude

I myself am pathetically impressed when I meet writers of very long novels. How can they spend so many hundreds of hours at the miserable, lonely pastime of creating fiction?

Writing is a sufficiently lonely and mysterious pastime that I don't begrudge myself a talisman or two, so long as they don't become ways of distracting myself from the glum inescapability of actual work.

I don't want to be alone at 80 years old, dripping in diamonds - having never helped anyone. That's not my path. That's not what I care about. That's not what excites me.

I don't know about writing. It's quite lonely. You have to have a lot of patience with yourself. I don't know if I could do that. But I'd love to direct again.

There are a lot of people who are very willing to put my mother on a pedestal, which is a lonely existence. She wants to dispute that so much that she will literally do anything for anybody.

I think 'In The Heat Of The Night' was one of the most influential films on me. Looking back now, I can see how influential it was on my screenwriting because here you have what looks to be a crime procedural, and it's actually a study in race and loneliness, and a perception of an era.

But I was a sensitive kid. A funny kid, and a perceptive one. There was a lot of time spent alone.

I'm single, which is good because I can concentrate the hell out of my performances. At some point, I'm going to want to find someone to chill out with at the end of the night and talk about things.

There's definitely a loneliness and, like, an internal element to being a performer.