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Quotes About Loneliness

Because lurking somewhere beneath the surface of your brain is a vision of loneliness, and it will be a terrible moment when it breaks through, and you realise that your future is not a green pastures, but the knackers yard. We are all separate people, and we are all alone. It is a ridiculous thing to say that no man is an island. We are all islands. You can die, and Gerry won't. Gerry can die, and you won't. Our lives just go on, separate as they have always been.
~ Fay Weldon
Palabras. No hay manera de quitárselas de encima. No le dejan a una estar verdaderamente sola. Plaga de bichos molestos, oye. Debería abrir las ventanas de par en par para que salgan a la calle las palabras, los lamentos, las viejas conversaciones tristes atrapadas entre los tabiques del piso deshabitado.
~ Fernando Aramburu
Friends: not one. Just a few acquaintances who imagine they feel something for me and who might be sorry if a train ran over me and the funeral was on a rainy day.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Having never discovered qualities in myself that might attract someone else, I could never believe that anyone felt attracted to me.
~ Fernando Pessoa
My hapless peers with their lofty dreams--how I envy and despise them! I'm with the others, the even more hapless, who have no-one but themselves to whom they can tell their dreams and show what would be verses if they wrote them. I'm with those poor slobs who have no books to show, who have no literature beside their own soul, and who are suffocating to death due to the fact that they exist without having taken that mysterious, transcendental exam that makes one eligible to live.
~ Fernando Pessoa
I've always wanted to be liked. It grieved me that I was treated with indifference. Left an orphan by Fortune, I wanted—like all orphans—to be the object of someone's affection. This need has always been a hunger that went unsatisfied, and so thoroughly have I adapted to this inevitable hunger that I sometimes wonder if I really feel the need to eat. Whatever be the case, life pains me.
~ Fernando Pessoa
The chill of what I won't feel gnaws at my present heart.
~ Fernando Pessoa
I am the outskirts of some non-existent town, the long-winded prologue to an unwritten book. I'm nobody, nobody. I don't know how to feel or think or love. I'm a character in a novel as yet unwritten, hovering in the air and undone before I've even existed, amongst the dreams of someone who never quite managed to breathe life into me.
~ Fernando Pessoa
An anxiety for being me, forever trapped in myself, floods my whole being without finding a way out, shaping me into tenderness, fear, sorrow and desolation. An inexplicable surfeit of absurd grief, a sorrow so lonely, so bereft, so metaphysically mine...
~ Fernando Pessoa
Isolation has carved me in its image and likeness.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Beside my pain, all other pains seem false or insignificant. They are the pains of happy people or of people who are alive enough to complain. Mine is the pain of someone imprisoned in life, cut off …
~ Fernando Pessoa
what I am aches in me.
~ Fernando Pessoa
I've reached the point where tedium is a person, the incarnate fiction of my own company.
~ Fernando Pessoa
It sometimes occurs to me, with sad delight, that if one day (in a future I won't be part of) the sentences I write are read and admired, then at last I'll have my own kin, people who 'understand' me, my true family in which to be born and loved. But far from being born into it, I'll have already died long ago. I'll be understood only in effigy, when affection can no longer compensate for the indifference that was the dead man's lot in life.
~ Fernando Pessoa
I had a certain talent for friendship, but I never had any friends, either because they never appeared, or because the friendship I had imagined was a mistake made by my dreams. I always lived an isolated life, which became more and more isolated the more I came to know myself.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Era já de madrugada E eu acordei sem razão, Senti a vida pesada. Pesado era o coração.
~ Fernando Pessoa
I'm so cold, so weary in my abandonment. Go and find my Mother, O Wind.
~ Fernando Pessoa
My life is so sad, and yet I do not even consider weeping over it; my hours are so false, and I do not even dream the gesture that might end them.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Andei sozinho na praia Andei na praia a pensar No jeito da tua saia Quando lá estiveste a andar.
~ Fernando Pessoa
N-am nici ambi?ii ?i nici dorin?e. A fi poet nu e pentru mine o ambi?ie. e doar felul meu de a fi singur.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Do I hear myself being applauded by large multitudes? The applause reaches the fourth floor where I live and collides with the cheap furniture of my cheap room, with everything that surrounds me and makes me wretched, from the kitchen...to my dreams.
~ Fernando Pessoa
When I put away my artifices and lovingly arrange in a corner all my toys, words, images and phrases, so dear to me I feel like kissing them, then I become so small and innocuous, so alone in a room so large and sad, so profoundly sad!
~ Fernando Pessoa
Amigos, nenhum. Só uns conhecidos que julgam que simpatizam comigo e teriam talvez pena se um comboio me passasse por cima e o enterro fosse em dia de chuva
~ Fernando Pessoa
La inmensidad vacía de las cosas, el gran olvido que hay en el cielo y la tierra.
~ Fernando Pessoa