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Quotes About Loneliness

I've been alone since my mom met Scott.He sucked the nectar from her heartlike a famished butterfly. No nurture, no nourishment left for Kristina.A vacation is a poor substitutefor love.
~ Ellen Hopkins
Everytime the leaves are changing it's the loneliest time of the year
~ Kevin Gates
The irony of loneliness is that everybody shares it from time to time.
~ Lil B
The worse illness of our time, is that so many people have to suffer from never being loved
~ Princess Diana
And I will look down and see my murmuring bones and the deep water like wind, like a roof of wind, and after a long time they cannot distinguish even bones upon the lonely and inviolate sand.
~ William Faulkner
Yeah, I like being on my own. I do. I tend to be a loner, so I'm okay. I'm not okay when I have to be around everyone all the time.
~ Keri Russell
If you're lonely, bored, or unhappy, remember you are mad young. There is so much time to meet new people and go to new places.
~ Ezra Koenig
In my country, at that time, being a champion of chess was like being a King. At that time I was a King and when you are King you feel a lot of responsibility, but there is nobody there to help you.
~ Boris Spassky
The moon has set, and the Pleiades; it is midnight, and time passes, and I sleep alone.
~ Sappho
It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.
~ Samuel Beckett
dying nowadays is more gruesome in many ways, namely, more lonely, mechanical, and dehumanized; at times it is even difficult to determine technically when the time of death has occurred.
~ Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
The trouble with me is that for a long time I have just been an I person. All people belong to a We except me. Not to belong to a We makes you too lonesome.
~ Carson McCullers
I spend so much time living by myself - mostly in hotels - and I pick up cats when I'm feeling particularly lonely.
~ Penelope Cruz
For the first time, I lived alone... in a luxury apartment on Sunset Strip. For a few days I loved the idea, but I got lonely and restless.
~ Patty Duke
Since I was 15 years old I've never been able to spend Christmas, Halloween or Thanksgiving (with friends and family). This was the first time I was able to enjoy a Super Bowl.
~ Brendan Shanahan
When you feel like an outsider - for whatever reason - you spend a lot of time alone.
~ Meg Cabot
The desolation and terror of, for the first time, realizing that the mother can lose you, or you her, and your own abysmal loneliness and helplessness without her.
~ Francis Thompson
When you're on a submarine you're usually underwater for months at a time, and you don't get to Skype or make phone calls. When you get messages, they're maybe two sentences. They're very short.
~ Jessy Schram
Offering sex for money is not a profession that glorifies women; it is a profession born of desperation, poverty, alienation, and loneliness.
~ Ann Rule
But Elizabeth Diane was not happy. She still felt invisible. She studied harder, hoping to achieve acceptance with better and better grades. No one seemed to notice her.
~ Ann Rule
We learned not to meet anymore, We don't raise our eyes to one another, But we ourselves won't guarantee What could happen to us in an hour.
~ Anna Akhmatova
Nearly everyone I meet expresses deep sympathy about the fact that I have never married. Sometimes I wonder why.
~ Anna Quindlen
I was good with being alone, always liked it, but there's something about doing a job alone that you've always done with someone else that just doesn't feel right. Maybe it's like making Christmas cookies by yourself. There's nothing wrong with it in theory, but you're really supposed to be doing it with other people, and not just any other people.
~ Anna Quindlen
Sometimes she felt as though she was disappearing, that she was being whittled down to just this terrible feeling, like a sudden aching that appeared all over, not in her body but in her soul.
~ Anna Quindlen