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Quotes About Loneliness

What an ugly, loveless life for a girl.
~ Sophocles
There was the girl, screaming like an angry bird, When it finds its nest left empt and little ones gone. - Sentry
~ Sophocles
Thou wouldst make a good monarch of a desert
~ Sophocles
Deep within every human being there still lives the anxiety over the possibility of being alone in the world, forgotten by God, overlooked among the millions and millions in this enormous household. One keeps this anxiety at a distance by looking at the many round about who are related to him as kin and friends, but the anxiety is still there, nevertheless, and one hardly dares think of how he would feel if all this were taken away.
~ Soren Kieekegaard
I'm so misunderstood that people misunderstand me even when I tell them I'm misunderstood.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
Deepest within every person there is nonetheless an anxiety about being alone in the world, forgotten by God, overlooked among the millions and millions in this enormous household.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
I spent my childhood alone, overweight and ugly, angry at everything, and knowing nothing of a life beyond this sadness.
~ Gloria Estefan
It is a lonely life sometimes, like throwing a stone into the deep darkness. It might hit something, but you can't see it. The only thing you can do is to guess, and to believe.
~ Haruki Murakami
What annoys a person who suicides? The life itself. Boredom. Tiredness that descends on every morning when you look at yourself at the mirror.
~ Henning Mankell
Tana. In all my long life, though there were many times I prayed for it, no one has ever saved me. No one but you.
~ Holly Black
He was the tallest, thinnest, weariest boy I had ever seen in my life. He was brilliant. He had gorgeous brown eyes, and he had only two suits. He was completely unhappy, and I didn't know why.
~ J. D. Salinger
I feel as though I am shelved. That I have been given the words to the story of my life, but that I have remained largely unread.
~ J.R. Ward
Because in fact I only lived to write, see no sense in life, have only forced "interests," wish every night, not urgently but quite definitely I could just not wake up tomorrow.
~ James Gould Cozzens
There's no such thing as a perfect life, but if you hold on to that long enough and watch it get chipped away, that's really hard to deal with. I had no one telling me otherwise.
~ Jason Diamond
L.A. can be very superficial, and it's hard to meet cool people here. I try to stay away from the glitzy side of the business and have a normal life as much as possible. I keep to myself.
~ Jessica Lucas
I used to think that the worst thing in life was to end up alone. It's not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel alone.
~ Robin Williams
I have no dating life.
~ Sara Sampaio
I have a strong belief that there is a god or a higher power. I think that if you have a strong belief in that, then you won't feel alone in life and you will feel you can get through anything.
~ Alana Stewart
If someone listens, or stretches out a hand, or whispers a kind word of encouragement, or attempts to understand a lonely person, extraordinary things begin to happen.
~ Loretta Girzaitis
Without a best friend to tell stories to, it almost didn't matter if they even happened.
~ Leila Howland, Nantucket Blue
You'll notice you don't have both feet on the ground when you don't have any friends around
~ Stanley Victor Paskavich
My dreams are crowded with people, as though to compensate for the solitariness of my waking hours.
~ Anna Lyndsey, Girl in the Dark
Clearly, she hadn't heard of the two words 'social' and 'life'.
~ Adele Rose, Possession
I never went dancing again.
~ Tilly Dunn, Exit Stage Left