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Quotes About Loneliness

I don't really have a social life.
~ David Mamet
No matter how many people care about you, she thought, if you can't be open with them about who you truly are, you're still alone.
~ Diane Chamberlain
And this is my life, getting dumped with no warning. Or liking people who don't like me back, or who don't like me enough, or not as much as they like someone else.
~ E. Lockhart
If whites bored me, it was because they bored themselves. They seemed to get little fun out of life and were desperately lonely.
~ Ethel Waters
When someone gradually leaves your life, that's one thing because you get used to the end of it. When somebody disappears, it takes all of your control away. It leaves you frantic.
~ Eva LaRue
Human warmth is perhaps the most lacking in a composer who lives his life in a recording studio.
~ Fabio Frizzi
This world we exist in is populated by people who have really shut themselves off from life.
~ Frederick Lenz
If all people became ghosts my social life would be so over" - Suze Simon in the Mediator
~ Meg Cabot
I have interviewed so many people who are put into nursing homes or hospices and are just waiting to die. It's a very lonely situation to just sit at a window and watch life go by.
~ Misty Upham
That's why; he's worried about how his life is turning out, and he's lonely, and lonely people are the bitterest of them all
~ Nick Hornby
There was no one to call me to bed, no one to demand that the rhythms of my life operate in a duet.
~ Nicole Krauss
He is also a victim of some injustice; he usually tries to be alone, in order to show his pain to others.
~ Paulo Coelho
There never was a woman so ill-suited to public life as I am. I have had to whip myself, as it were, into society, and the loneliness of it all has been terrific.
~ Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie
There is no one to tell this to and yet it seems very important to get this right. The reality and what it is like to escape it. That even now it is sometimes too beautiful to bear.
~ Peter Heller
I didn't have an incredibly active social life as a teenager. I always wished it was a little bit more exciting than it was.
~ Olivia Thirlby
Can't you . . . I don't know. Find a hobby or something?" "Being charming is my hobby," said Adrian obstinately. "I'm the life of the party— even without drinking. I wasn't meant to be alone.
~ Richelle Mead
I don't have any social life or anything.
~ Rod Stewart
Impoverished is the life fenced in with few friends
~ Spencer W. Kimball
Life is very long, when you're lonely.
~ Steven Morrissey
Fatherlessness didn't strike me as being an event. It was a state of life.
~ Tom Stoppard
You can't think how I depend on you, and when you're not there the colour goes out of my life.
~ Virginia Woolf
I'm almost completely without family and it's a very odd feeling in life. I have no children.
~ Walter Mosley
It is said that life is too short, and that's quite true, unless you are lonely. Loneliness can bring time to its knees; an absolute and utter standstill.
~ Jonathan Hull
I've always been a loner, and I've spent most of my life as a single person.
~ Juliana Hatfield