Quotes About Loneliness

I marvel at these young people: drinking their coffee, they tell clear, plausible stories. If they are asked what they did yesterday, they aren't embarrassed: they bring you up to date in a few words. If I were in their place, I'd fall over myself. It's true that no one has bothered about how I spend my time for a long while. When you live alone you no longer know what it is to tell something: the plausible disappears at the same time as the friends.

The sun was shut up in a cold bottle.

You see, I understand what it is when the lonely person begins to feel like an animal.

At that time, when you thought, and I agreed, that I shouldn't be alone, perhaps I really should have been alone

mangoes in our breasts, which give us away. And it isn't only that I'm scared of all those wives, but there'll be nobody to talk to any more. I've gotten to that age where I need human voices and intelligence. That's all that's left. Kindness and love.

Research shows that loneliness damages the body in much the same way as aging.1, 2 It sure felt that way. Every day felt like losing a fight. I learned that loneliness isn't fixed by listening to other people talk. You can cure your loneliness only by doing the talking yourself and—most important—being heard.

The girl was holding out her hand, bit I could only give a pathetic shrug. I had nothing to give her. I'd finally faded away.

The girl was holding out her hand, but I could only give a pathetic shrug. I had nothing to give her. I'd finally faded away.

Scott Nicholson

You don't know what it's like, when your best friend disappears.

Maybe she still was a pretty-head, making up irrational stories about the empty forest. The longer she stayed alone out here, the more Tally understood why the Rusties and their predecessors had believed in invisible beings, praying to placate spirits as they trashed the natural world around them.

To spare such speeches, it were well! They of the witches' kitchen smell, And of a time long past and gone. To know the world have I not sought? The empty learned, the empty taught?- Spake I out plainly, as in reason bound, Then doubly loud the paradox would sound; By Fortune's adverse buffets overborne To solitude I fled, to wilds forlorn, And not in utter loneliness to live, Myself at last did to the Devil give!

I have made all sorts of acquaintances, but have as yet found no society. I know not what attraction I possess for the people, so many of them like me, and attach themselves to me; and then I feel sorry when the road we pursue together goes only a short distance.

Sabahleyin azapl? bir rüyadan uyan?nca yok yere ona do?ru kollar?m? uzat?yorum...Daha böyle yar? uykulu halde onu yan?mda arad?ktan sonra iyice uyan?p da yaln?zl???m? anlad???m zaman kalbimden gözya?lar?m?n p?nar? ta??yor ve önümde beliren gelece?in karanl?klar?na kar?? ba??rt?yla a?l?yorum.

Freudvoll Und leidvoll, Gedankenvoll sein; Langen Und bangen In schwebender Pein, Himmelhoch jauchzend, Zum Tode betrübt, Glücklich allein Ist die Seele, die liebt. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Ich hab allerlei Bekanntschaft gemacht, Gesellschaft hab ich noch keine gefunden.

Mi sentivo il cuore pesante… e ci separammo senza esserci compresi. Come del resto nessuno, a questo mondo, comprende facilmente l'altro.

I established relationships of all kinds, but I still haven't found affective company.

Kim hissedebilir ki, Nas?l de?ip durdu?unu ?çimi ?st?rab?n? Zavall? yüre?imin burada ya?ad??? korkuyu, U?runa titredi?i, ne istedi?ini Sadece sen bilirsin, yaln?zca sen! Nereye gidersem gideyim, Ne ac?, ne ac?, ne ac?yor Gö?sümün ?uras?! Ben, ah, yaln?z kal?r kalmaz, A?l?yor, a?l?yor, a?l?yorum, K?r?l?yor içimde kalbim

She could not help recalling the bustling which had attended Eduard's celebration of her own birthday, she could not help thinking of the newly erected pavilion under whose roof they had promised themselves so much pleasure. The fireworks exploded again before her eyes and in her ears; the lonelier she was, the more she lived in imagination; yet the more she lived in imagination, the more alone she felt. She leaned upon his arm no more, and had no hope of ever being able to lean on it again.

Next morning Mariana awoke only to new despondency; she felt herself very solitary; she wished not to see the light of day, but staid in bed, and wept.

Voinko olla avuksi, sitä en tiedä, yksinäinen ei paljoa taida, vaan se joka oikealla hetkelle liittyy moniin muihin.

She is not fashioned for a life among strangers.

How sickly grow, How pale, the plants in those ill-fated vales That, circled round with the gigantic heap Of mountains, never felt, nor ever hope To feel, the genial vigor of the sun!