Quotes About Loneliness

Running your own business can be the loneliest job in the world. You are the MD, answer the phone and make tea, handle the invoices and have to make payments on time.

There was one bed.

Long moments passed, and finally she rolled onto her side too so that our backs faced one another. Icy silence fell. So much for a peaceful or romantic night.

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?

I felt lonely then. This is the time when you need somebody. This is the time when it is good to have a wife, and children, to absorb your grief, to hold on to you. This is when you pay, and pay and pay, for pretending that you don't need anybody.

The thing you did to alleviate the loneliness was to take off your clothes and touch someone, even if you didn't really know the person well.

What's a kiss? The sound loneliness makes when it dies.

And I cannot help but wonder as we navigate the realms of our own manufacture, will we remember how to cherish one another, or will these realms turn out to be far too self-referential, a kind of beautifully furnished tomb, a mind loop, a mirror reflecting a mirror-offering a vista that can only induce dizziness, longing, and loneliness?

When I was a girl I only had two friends, and they were imaginary. And they would only play with each other.

It's not that I feel alone because I have no friends because I have lots of friends. I know that I have people who can hold me and reassure me and talk to ne and care for me and think of me but they can't be inside my head with me all the time - for all time.

'American Horror' is the debasement of the suburban family, the way a lonely kid would have imagined it in the Seventies.

In their heyday, the Pet Shop Boys were the Interpol of the Eighties, dressing up to sing really weird pop songs about lust and loneliness in the big city. They're low-pro now, not retro-worshipped in the manner of Depeche Mode, New Order, or The Cure, but you can hear the reason why - these guys are too sad.

Learning, over and over. The work of love will make you bloody and it will make you lonely.

I had never gotten the hang of dating — I was always going to be somebody who either had a girlfriend or didn't.

Some nights I would drive up Route 29 to the all-night Wal-Mart. I'd push a cart around with some paper towels inside to look like a real shopper, just to spy on married people. I just wanted to be near them, to listen to them argue...Married people fight over some dumb shit when they think there aren't any widowers eavesdropping. And they never think there are widowers eavesdropping."--Rob Sheffield (Love is a Mix Tape)

That's why I never married. Marriage is lonely, but it ain't private." That was always my most intense fear about getting married: When everything sucked and I was by myself, I thought, Well, at least I don't have another miserable person to worry about. I figured if you give up your private place and it still turns out to be lonely, you're just screwed. So I felt safer not even thinking about it.

The things we used to do together were alien now. Lonesome star, shine on.

There was an empty house on the other side of this drive, and I had no idea what it would be like to try to go inside it. There was nobody there. I wasn't driving back home—just back.

I had no voice to talk with because she was my whole language. Without her to talk to, there was nothing to say.

The hungry feeling and the lonely feeling merged until it was hard to tell them apart.

She didn't want to be in their club. Didn't want to learn how to be apart from the one person she longed to see every day.

Alone: it was no way to live and it was no way to die.

Everybody loves your life but you

Someone observed darkly that it is always two A.M. when one is in the 'dark night of the soul.