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Quotes About Loneliness

Lei non è del Castello, lei non è del paese, lei non è nulla. Eppure anche lei è qualcosa, sventuratamente, è un forestiero, uno che è sempre di troppo e sempre fra i piedi, uno che vi procura un mucchio di grattacapi..
~ Franz Kafka
Odamda günlerce yaln?z?m, ziyan? yok. Dünyada da y?llarca yaln?z deÄŸil miydim?
~ Franz Kafka
Gaunt, without any fever, not cold, not warm, with vacant eyes, without a shirt, the youngster heaved himself up from under the feather bedding, threw his arms around my neck, and whispered in my ear: Doctor, let me die.
~ Franz Kafka
If you want to get to the top, there's always the risk that it will isolate you from other people.
~ Magnus Carlsen
To Tennessee Williams we owe a special debt. In a tragic age, he has transformed loneliness by naming it for us, suffered sordidness with beauty, graced poor hurt lives with love and pity.
~ William Jay Smith
In Washington, we had a grieving President Wilson, very, very much a lonely, grieving man. He had lost his wife of many years in August 1914 at about the same time the war broke out in Europe.
~ Erik Larson
Few American presidents have been unhappier or lonelier in office than Woodrow Wilson.
~ Jill Lepore
To cry on court during a Wimbledon final, you must feel so lonely.
~ Marion Bartoli
Swimming is probably the ultimate of burnout sports. It's ironic because millions of people who swim as their regular exercise love the meditation aspect of it; you don't wind up with any orthopedic injuries. But when you swim at a world class level for hours and hours - the loneness of the long distance runner.
~ Diana Nyad
The writing is really hard. You're alone. It really pulls it out of you. You pull it out of your head. But when you're a director, you're shopping - you're picking this actor, you're picking this scene. It's like the most intense kinetic high-speed shopping of all time. You sit in a chair and it will all come rushing at you like a wind tunnel.
~ Tony Gilroy
I was so famous that I couldn't leave the hotel room. I remember looking out of the window at all these fans but just feeling so isolated.
~ Dolores O'Riordan
The loneliness is when you pick up and move, even if you are not originally from that place, and you have some memories that you want to embrace. Having a life in transit, I feel like you are always looking out the back window.
~ Ajay Naidu
If you live in the city, you only have to look out your window to see enough that would make you feel that you don't want to step outside your front door ever again.
~ Steven Wilson
I'd happily just stay on the road. Getting home from America, sitting in my kitchen with a cup of tea, staring out of the window is pretty depressing. I didn't have a tour manager to tell me what to do so I had to start reaching out to people and making plans. That was hard. You become very vegetable-y.
~ Ben Lovett
Suddenly, I became conscious of the fact that the driver was in the act of pulling up the horses in the courtyard of a vast ruined castle, from whose tall black windows came no ray of light, and whose broken battlements showed a jagged line against the sky.
~ Bram Stoker
I am the last person on the dance floor at a wedding, I am the person that awkwardly hangs around the edge and says no unless they've had a few glasses of wine.
~ Tom Fletcher
It's low-key depressing when you're not winning.
~ JaVale McGee
When I was in middle school, we had moved from Texas to Orange County. I didn't fit in, and it was pretty lonely.
~ Pedro Pascal
I definitely check my phone for texts a lot - like, 'Did anyone text me? Is anyone thinking about me? Does anyone love me?'
~ Spike Jonze
I made a couple of friends when I was a teenager who said I was funny. I used to send them very long texts; it was on a Nokia and always exceeding the text limit. But if I was making jokes in a group nobody was listening.
~ Ivo Graham
It takes a mighty good man to be better than no man at all.
~ Dixie Carter
I'm always in the car in L.A., so I see the people I work with - and, thank God, I adore the people I work with - but it's a little lonely.
~ Tanya Saracho
I can be at my house sitting there making music alone, and every single time I've ever done that the first thing I do when I'm done, no matter if it's 4 in the morning... I literally just pick up my phone and I call someone.
~ Benny Blanco
The hardest thing about being on the road is not being with my animals.
~ Brandi Carlile