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Quotes About Loneliness

When you have had the kind of fame I had, I was always hounded by the media and I lived a very isolated life. Now it's even more difficult. The world has changed dramatically.
~ David Cassidy
I appreciate all of the attention I get in my career. I am a loner and live a rather secluded life so sometimes I do get overwhelmed, but I am always very appreciative of everything, and honored.
~ Elizabeth Kim
I felt the death loneliness that comes at the end of every day that is wasted in your life.
~ Ernest Hemingway
But just remember, life without me would be even more unbearable.
~ Anne Rice
Most of the pathetic scenes in almost everybody's life are scenes unnoted by anyone and totally disregarded by the person in question.
~ John Cowper Powys
Those struggling with life-threatening thoughts do not feel connected to others. They feel all alone- even alone in the midst of a crowd.
~ June Hunt
I can feel it in my bones: I'm gonna spend my whole life alone.
~ Liz Phair
I took cooking classes when I was younger; girls weren't interested in me, and I thought I may be alone for the rest of my life.
~ Michael Jordan
I don't socialize. I'm kind of a hermit. The life of an actor can be very lonely.
~ Peter Dinklage
Word I was in my life alone, / Word I had no one left but God.
~ Robert Frost
Shattered dreams, worthless years, here I am encased in a hollow shell. Life began, then was done, now I stare into a cold and empty well.
~ Stevie Wonder
It was the worst period of my life. I had all this gigantic acceptance as a kid, and all of a sudden there was this monumental rejection.
~ Tommy Rettig
My major regret in life is that my childhood was unnecessarily lonely.
~ Truman Capote
As in an icicle the agnostic abides alone. The vital principle is taken out of all endeavor for improving himself or bettering hisfellows. All hope in the grand possibilities of life are blasted.
~ Anna Julia Cooper
Of course I loved you, you saved my life. I wish you hadn't I wish you hadn't I wish you'd left me alone.
~ Sarah Kane
Nobody wanted your dance, Nobody wanted your strange glitter, your floundering Drowning life and your effort to save yourself, Treading water, dancing the dark turmoil, Looking for something to give.
~ Ted Hughes
A disquieting loneliness came into my life, but it induced no hunger for friends of longer acquaintance: they seemed now like a salt-free, sugarless diet.
~ Truman Capote
I was single for a long time and felt very much alone in the world, and talk of family values upset me very much at that phase in my life, because I used to think: 'What about people like me?
~ Wendy Cope
I wasn't scared; I was just somebody else, some stranger, and my whole life was a haunted life, the life of a ghost.
~ Jack Kerouac
No messages. Morale losing altitude.
~ Dyan Sheldon
From where you are you can hear in Cockle Row in the spring, moonless night, Miss Price, dressmaker and sweetshop-keeper, dream of her lover, tall as the town clock tower, Samson syrup-gold-maned, whacking thighed and piping hot, thunderbolt-bass'd and barnacle-breasted, flailing up the cockles with his eyes like blowlamps and scooping low over her lonely loving hotwaterbottled body.
~ Dylan Thomas
Goodbye, good luck, struck the sun & the moon To the fisherman lost on the land He stands alone at the door of his home, With his long-legged heart in his hand.
~ Dylan Thomas
The two of us were alone on the planet, with all the vastness of the sky and the future and the past spreading out around us
~ E Lockhart
I want to die, sometimes, my head hurts so much. I keep writing you all my brightest thoughts but I never say the dark ones, even though I think them all the time. So I am saying them now. Even if you do not answer, I will know somebody heard them, and that, at least, is something.
~ E Lockhart