Quotes About Loneliness

You write that you feel bored. You know, my dear, it's the same thing everywhere. I have nothing to do with anyone in Moscow. Sometimes that looks even strange: in so many years not to develop close friendships, but that depends on character.

Svetlana did not know how to be alone. Alone, she felt totally exposed. She thought she would be safe if only she could entwine her life in another, but then, once she had achieved this, she would feel suffocated, a pattern that would take her decades to break, if she ever succeeded.

He said God loved me, even if I was Stalin's daughter."7 The remark suggests a depth of loneliness that is devastating.

But tonight, because Rome had fallen and Felix was dead, because of Valerius's shame, the empty hut seemed horribly lonely, and there was a small aching need in him for somebody to notice, even if they were not glad, that he had come home.

It is lonely never to have been loved, only devoured.

Beyond a row of dwarf palms the sea was snoring and complaining like a drunk in a doorway.

There, I've said it, and I said it in front of all these strange and quite scary women and that guy, because I'm less frightened of them than I am of being alone with you and you turning me down.

Only the lonely know the way I feel tonight.

Y llegó el invierno, y el pobre sintió frío en el cuerpo y en el alma.

Naquela noite eu chorava pela minha solidão, pelo abandono que me esperava, quando eu seria como o menino da mata ou o menino na rua vazia.

Afinal, todos somos crianças abandonadas. Nos momentos de solidão noturna, de insônia, tomamos consciência de que estamos destinados ao abandono, àquele tempo quando será inútil chamar "meu pai" ou "minha mãe".

I think that if there is a hell it's just a place where you're left all alone, with nobody around you. Man, when you're alone you don't have to burn, just being by yourself for all of time would be the worst punishment the Old Man could give you

He went back through the wet wild woods, waving his wild tail, and walking by his wild lone. But he never told anybody.

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. To be your own man is hard business. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

Blow out, you bugles, over the rich dead!There's none of these so lonely and poor of old,But, dying, has made us rarer gifts than gold.

Everybody at home speaks mandarin except me.

Jed was used to isolation. His face was like some kind of cul-de-sac. It said NO THROUGH ROAD to most people. Confronted with him, they always turned around, backed away.

He was dropped under a streetlamp, the only person left on the bus. A patch of mauled light. Gritty pavement, scarred with a million cigarette burns. Weeds and spit and oil. Place like this, the only glitter was the knife just before it sank in. Place like this, there wasn't any gold.

Well, we are equals, in our fear as in our loneliness.

And I knew that as long as I responded, in both a physical and mystical way, to the natural world-sea, sun, earth, moon and stars-I would never feel lonely upon this planet.

We three, We're not alone, We're not even company— My echo, My shadow, And me…

The Hare in the Moon

Being a misfit in a group of boisterous party-goers can be a lonely experience. But being alone as a matter of choice is one of life's pleasures.

Along its banks, for hundreds of miles, lived millions of people, and Sita was only one small girl among them, and no one had ever heard of her, no one knew her—except for the old man, the boy and the river.