Quotes About Loneliness

I bought the records. Can't play them now. No wind-up gramophone! But I am a sentimental fellow and I keep them among my souvenirs as a reminder of the days when I walked home alone across the silent, moonlit parade ground, after the evening show was over.

him, but of course they wouldn't allow that. She became very melancholic, and started living all by herself in the old palace. They give her everything she needs, but she doesn't go out or have visitors. Everyone says she's mad.' 'How do they know?' I asked. 'Because she's different from other people, I suppose.' 'Is that being mad?

live close to nature and you'll never feel lonely. Don't drive those sparrows out of your veranda; they won't hack into your computer.

This is the house of the closet-man. There are no rooms, just hallways and closets. Things happen in rooms. He does not like things to happen.

It made me sad when I caught myself pretending that everybody out there in cyberspace cared about what I thought, when really nobody gives a shit. And when I multiplied that sad feeling by all the millions of people in their lonely little rooms, furiously writing and posting to their lonely little pages that nobody has time to read because they're all so busy writing and posting, it kind of broke my heart.

The rest of the time Olivia was alone in her big house with all the doors and windows shut to keep out the heat and dust.

No relatives, no friends, nobody. Doesn't that seem strange to you? Someone disappears and no one gives a damn?

All Americans have something lonely about them. I don't know what the reason might be, except maybe that they're all descended from immigrants.

People were infected with the concept that happiness was something outside themselves, and a new and powerful form of loneliness was born.

Where do you go when you're lonely? Where do you go when you're blue? Where do you go when you're lonely? I'll follow you When the stars go blue.

The type of loneliness where you need to keep struggling to accept a situation is fundamentally different than the sort you know you'll get through if you just hang in there

Malevolence is born of negative feelings like loneliness and sadness and anger. It comes from an emptiness inside you that feels as if it's been carved out with a knife, an emptiness you're left with when something very important has been taken away from you

He walks slowly along beneath the dripping pine trees, staring straight ahead of him, like someone who has no idea where he is going, and his red bag is the only spot of bright colour in the driving rain.

The arctic loneliness of age.

Who would hold her when he had to let go? And why did the thought of Thea alone, without him, make him want to tear the world apart for its cruelty?

I can remember when it wasn't so lonely around here. I guess loneliness makes you remember the good times.

When Hamid dropped Lata off at her house at nine that night, he felt hollow. The touch of her soft body was sheared from him like bark from a tree, and he spent the entire night tossing and turning.

Böyle acz içindeyken odamda her ?ey bana küçüklü?ümü ve zavall?l???m? hayk?r?yor. Soka?a f?rl?yorum. Bir tek çehre görsem de yan?nda yürüsem, hiç ses ç?karmadan yürüsem diyorum. Halbuki ara s?ra kar??la?t???m ahbaplar? görmemezli?e geliyorum. Hiçbiri bana bu anda yard?ma ça?r?lacak kadar yak?n görünmüyor. Bilmem beni anl?yor musunuz?...

Whereas I had kept my distance from others all my life. I had not bothered them, and they had not bothered me, and so I harboured no anger. It was only my loneliness that ate at me, and it was this same loneliness that led me to betray myself in myriad ways.

on seneden beri içlerinde ya?ad??? halde bir türlü al??amad??? bu insanlar?n aras?nda onun da sa?lam bir yeri olmal?yd?. Yaln?z kendisine dayanan yaln?z kendisinin olan bir yeri.

Fakat sarho? gibi olmu?tum. Bir yudum içmedi?im halde bütün etraf?m gözümden silinmi?ti. Ve ben bu kar???k, bu puslu ve dumanl? kalabal???n aras?nda yaln?z onu sarih, vaz?h ve ayd?nl?k olarak görüyordum.

Kendimi bildim bileli, bütün günlerimi, haberim olmadan ve nefsime itiraf etmeden, bir insan? aramakla geçirmi? ve bu yüzden bütün di?er insanlardan kaçm??t?m.

Ya? iskelesi civar?ndaki ma?azas?ndan geç vakit yorgun ve arg?n dönen Galip amca, ev halk? ile konu?mak itiyad?n? senelerden beri kaybetmi?ti. Yeme?i yer yemez eline gazeteyi al?r, kendisini k?sa zamanda ümmilikten okur yazarl??a ç?karan iri Latin harflerini büyük bir sab?rla hecelemeye ba?lard?.

Etraflar? taraf?ndan anla??lmayan, haklar?nda daima yanl?? hükümler verilen insanlar?n zamanla bu yaln?zl?klar?ndan bir gurur ve ac? bir zevk duymaya ba?lad?klar?n? biliyordum.