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Quotes About Loneliness

If I had been married earlier in life, I wouldn't have seen the double helix. I would have been taking care of the kids on Saturday. On the other hand, I was lonely a lot of the time.
~ James D. Watson
I couldn't have felt more of lonely desolation somehow, had I been robbed of a belief or had missed my destiny in life.
~ Joseph Conrad
Sometimes I feel my whole life has been one big rejection.
~ Marilyn Monroe
I lost some of my friends because I got so famous, people who just assumed that I would be different now. I felt like everyone hated me. That is the most unhappy time of my life.
~ Haruki Murakami
That's the problem with winning right from the start, thought Ender. you lose friends.
~ Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
On this road there are no godspoke men. They are gone and I am left and they have taken with them the world.
~ Cormac McCarthy, The Road
The whole house seemed to exhale a melancholy breath of emptiness
~ Michael Chabon
As an actor, you live a little bit of a cloistered life. It's a lonely life. You oddly, strangely find yourself all alone, quite often, with a lot of time to think.
~ Melissa Leo
But learning-time is always a long, secluded time, and so loving, for a long while ahead and far on into life, is-solitude, intensified and deepened loneness for him who loves.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Single life is so overrated. It sucks.
~ Rihanna
Each year of life brings us nearer to our decline, but I will continue to seek a listener until I'm dead in a ditch.
~ Steven Morrissey
Somewhere beyond the curtain Of distorting days Lives that lonely thing That shone before these eyes Targeted, trod like Spring.
~ William Butler Yeats
It is only in the lonely emergencies of life that our creed is tested: then routine maxims fail, and we fall back on our gods.
~ William James
If you are the one who is dumped, then you feel like your life is over.
~ Alex Kingston
It seems you don't approve of the family business Katerina. Or of me. But these chances you take... These things you do... This is a dangerous life to live... alone.
~ Ally Carter
... the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be.
~ Bertrand Russell
Everything about life makes me lonely.
~ Billy Corgan
I don't like the dislocation of being away for months at a time. It's not conducive to having a life.
~ Bob Mould
His own life seemed so solitary, a fragile column supporting nothing amidst the wreckage of the years.
~ Carson McCullers
human relationships simply aren't durable. I think back to the women in my life. they seem non-existent.
~ Charles Bukowski
When you reach the end of your life - trust me, you won't look back and savor the moments you spent alone.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
What kind of life am i supposed to have without you?You were the one good thing,the only good thing i ever found.
~ Claudia Gray
The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness
~ Edward Gibbon
The poet would befriend and comfort himself, if only he could.
~ Edward Hirsch