Quotes About Loneliness

Socializing is as exhausting as giving blood. People assume we loners are misanthropes, just sitting thinking, 'Oh, people are such a bunch of assholes,' but it's really not like that. We just have a smaller tolerance for what it takes to be with others. It means having to perform. I get so tired of communicating.

We care. We feel. We think. We do not always miss the absent one. We cannot always come when called. Being friends with a loner requires patience and the wisdom that distance does not mean dislike.

Loners live among the mob, so the mob mistakes us for its own, presuming and assuming. When the mob gets too close, the truth is revealed. Running or walking away, chased or free, any which way, we tell the mob in effect I don't need you.

I don't hate my relatives or those whose names fill my address book. But I do not want to have lunch with any of them. It is not personal. I am not angry. Nor is this about being afraid. I am not shy. I do not have terrible manners. Do birds hate lips? Do Fijians detest snowplows? Being a loner is not about hate, but need: We need what others dread. We dread what others need.

They say isolation drives you crazy. Sure it does-when you can't get enough of it.

Loners live among the mob, so the mob mistakes us for its own, presuming and assuming.

feeling as though I meant nothing at all to anyone. I'm terribly lonely. How will I bear this for three more months? Today alone has lasted years.

But after a while, Miri noticed that none of the smiling people ever looked at her. Their eyes moved from Ray and Robbie on one side to Nell and Nora on the other, slipping right over Miri in the middle.

La mattina dopo mi sono stesa sul letto e mi sono infilata il ferro da maglia nel sesso, piano piano. Andavo a tentoni senza trovare il collo dell'utero e un non riuscivo a non fermarmi appena sentivo un po' di dolore. Mi sono resa conto che da sola non ce l'avrei fatta. La mia impotenza mi gettava nella disperazione. Non ero all'altezza. "Niente. Mi sembrava impossibile. Piango e non ne posso più".

The strangest thing about jealousy is that it can populate an entire city, the whole world, with a person you have never met.

Je suis dans un état de douleur latente, de celle que masquent les insensibilisants pour un mal physique, écartelée par trois idées affreuses : 1) ne plus jamais le revoir Ã¢â'¬â€œ 2) avoir « perdu » plusieurs mois dans une passion non partagée Ã¢â'¬â€œ 3) humiliation de n'être plus autant désirée, admirée, par rapport aux premiers mois. Les réveils dans la nuit sont noirs.

Jeudi est loin, si loin, et il n'appelle jamais. Il va falloir rompre, ma vie est trop stupide. Mais pour qui est-ce que je bronze

As prevalent as loneliness is, many people don't recognize that people that they know may very well be suffering from loneliness. It's important for many reasons, one of which is that it has a profound impact on health.

Where the despair of loneliness and poverty haunts every hour, the optimism to embark on new projects cannot find a place to alight on the brain's cortex. Poverty itself is an enormous obstacle to an enlightened and enlightening - not to say healthy - old age.

I went to prom with my boyfriend, but after the dance he left me at a party all by myself. It was awful!

Moon! Moon! I am prone before you. Pity me, and drench me in loneliness.

The main thing that triggered my depression was my isolation that was imposed on me by becoming the wife of the prime minister, and leaving my home, my family. I was young, very young, and very naive and very hopeful and enthusiastic about my wonderful new life, but it was the loneliness and the lack of being able to properly relate to people.

The protagonist in 'Deacon Blues' is a triple-L loser - an L-L-L Loser. It's not so much about a guy who achieves his dream but about a broken dream of a broken man living a broken life.

I like animal sidekicks. They seem to be a pretty cool trope of post-apocalyptic fiction - just because if you're going to have this lone protagonist, they're going to need someone to talk to. Dogs are overused, and cats are dumb. So that leaves monkeys.

We haven't evolved as loners, we need each other. It's easy to believe in the illusion of technology bringing us closer together. But if you were to protest that and say, 'I'm not going to use a smartphone, I'm not going to use email, I'm not going to use social media,' it's like you're no longer a part of humanity.

Sometimes it is necessary to be lonely in order to prove that you are right.

Loneliness had taught Harriet that there was always someone who understood - it was just so often that they were dead, and in a book.

to speak of them out loud, to speak of their hunger and pain and loneliness and humour, to make them visible so that can not be ravaged in the dark without great consequence.

Now we shall both be alone, and I shall have no way of making you understand.' 'I don't want to make it easier for you,' I said; 'I hope your heart may break; but I do understand.' The avalanche was down, the hillside swept bare behind it; the last echoes died on the white slopes; the new mound glittered and lay still in the silent valley.