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Quotes About Loneliness

Ti manca ancora tua moglie?" chiese la vicepreside in ascensore. "Sì. Tyyne è morta di tumore tre anni fa. Il primo anno è stato il più difficile. Ho preso anche un cane, ma un cane non sostituisce una moglie, per quanto di razza.
~ Arto Paasilinna
Jednocze?nie po niebosk?onie przelatuje druga gwiazda: przepe?nione nadziej? i mi?o?ci? ostrze, tn?ce czarne niebo. Jest ono jak odpowied? na samotn? modlitw?. Zdaje si? mówi?: w ?yciu s? nadzieje, marzenia, dobro?.
~ Arto Paasilinna
y él murmuraba amen al tiempo que ellos, para que no se sintieran tan solos cuando caían al suelo y morían. Pero sus ojos claros y fríos estaban atentos a las ondulantes filas de la caballería enemiga
~ Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Nada traicionan, tanto tiempo después, la mujer que desde hace dos años vive sola junto al mar con un perro y unos libros. Qué otra cosa, decide, seria el impulso, o el deseo, de permanecer abrazada a ese hombre para siempre. Ignora que habrá en su cabeza dentro de un par de horas, cuando la claridad del día despeje del todo e ilumine con mas crudeza su conciencia. Lo cierto es que en este momento, sin duda alguna, desearía morir si el muriera.
~ Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Actually loneliness has a kind of fascination; it's a state of egotistical, inner grace that you can achieve only by standing guard on old, forgotten roads that no one travels anymore.
~ Arturo Pérez-Reverte
I am completely a loner. In my head I want to feel I can be anywhere. There is a sort of recklessness that being a loner allows me.
~ Arundhati Roy
I had waited for the tears to stop before I called him, waited until my whole body was empty and dry, hard as a fist. But now I felt the sadness rising again in my chest.
~ Aryn Kyle
They will stare. They will stand to the side and watch her be alone.
~ Aryn Kyle
At home, Tommy tried to avoid looking too long at himself in the mirror, for his reflection stirred in him a feeling of great loneliness and a fear that this loneliness might be permanent.
~ Aryn Kyle
The whole wide world was just a big pile of strangers, thinking all the time about everything they were missing.
~ Aryn Kyle
The principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television. What happens is that the family 'gets together' alone.
~ Ashley Montagu
They are still looking for me. They rage for me. They mourn for me. They call for me. They are my remnants.
~ Asuka Katsura
There were vast spaces in which his spirit could reach out, touching this, possessing that, of a million crowding sensations, but gradually at first, then rapidly, he had found himself reaching out to ever-receding mirages, alone in a void. He
~ Attia Hosain
When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that's when I think life is over.
~ Audrey Hepburn
It's hard being left behind. (...) It's hard to be the one who stays.
~ Audrey Niffenegger
It is significant, I sometimes think, that the facets of nature which quicken my pulse with that awareness of both life and death are inextricably associated with the loneliness of man's mote-like existence in the cosmos?and acceptance of man's essential solitude on earth, or by love, or both together, for they are only different aspects of the same face.
~ August Derleth
if you are afraid of loneliness, don't get married
~ August Strindberg
I am like a moon that shines on an immense, unknown sea where ships never pass
~ Auguste Rodin
I used to feel so alone in the city. All those gazillions of people and then me, on the outside. Because how do you meet a new person? I was very stunned by this for many years. And then I realized, you just say, "Hi." They may ignore you. Or you may marry them. And that possibility is worth that one word.
~ Augusten Burroughs
I'm lonely. And I'm lonely in some horribly deep way and for a flash of an instant, I can see just how lonely, and how deep this feeling runs. And it scares the shit out of me to be this lonely because it seems catastrophic.
~ Augusten Burroughs
I think people tend to see the bigger point, which is maybe not fitting in and feeling like you didn't have the childhood that you expected you would have, or that you felt lonely or struggled with drugs and alcohol or just that you were able to achieve your dreams.
~ Augusten Burroughs
I'm lonely. And I'm lonely in some horribly deep way and for a flash of an instant, I can see just how lonely, and how deep this feeling runs. And it scares the shit out of me to be this lonely because it seems catastrophic.
~ Augusten Burroughs
I used to feel so alone in the city. All those gazillions of people and then me, on the outside. Because how do you meet a new person? I was very stunned by this for many years. And then I realized, you just say, "Hi." They may ignore you. Or you may marry them. And that possibility is worth that one word.
~ Augusten Burroughs
Why am I so anxious? And then it hits me. I'm not anxious, I'm lonely. And I'm lonely in some horribly deep way and for a flash of an instant, I can see just how lonely, and how deep this feeling runs. And it scares the shit out of me to be so lonely because it seems catastrophic - seeing the car just as it hits you.
~ Augusten Burroughs