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Quotes About Loneliness

Sono solo un dinosauro, come dici tu, e cerco di estinguermi senza troppa tristezza.
~ Stefano Benni
No sun shall rise today for human eyes to see; the world entire is wrapped round in whirling white, an impenetrable cloud of cold and ice that chills the heart as it freezes the ground.
~ Stephanie Barron
Ultimately, however, whether it is mother, wife, or child who keeps a man going, or whether a woman focuses her self-sacrifice on parent, husband, or child, the simultaneous connection and contrast between nurturing within the family and competition outside it leads to a profound sense of loneliness.
~ Stephanie Coontz
I had no one to hold. What if this was my life, attending weddings, sitting in pews, listening to I do's, perpetually wishing for someone to share my life with? Where the fuck was the alcohol?
~ Stephanie Klein
I need a hug from you to make me feel better about the fact I need a hug from you.
~ Stephanie Rowe
Anxiety, alienation, loneliness, emptiness, and meaninglessness are the fruits of living as an isolated subject admist a multitude of lifeless objects. Although our scope of involvement may extend to numerous and diverse fields of interest and concern, as long as the notion of having predominates, our being remains empty and superficial.
~ Stephen Batchelor
Loneliness is not only positively characterized by a certain degree of isolation, but is negatively characterized by a deficiency of participation.
~ Stephen Batchelor
I don't know how much longer I can keep going without a friend. I used to be able to do it very easily, but that was before I knew what having a friend was like.
~ Stephen Chbosky
Everyone else is either asleep or having sex. I've been watching cable television and eating jello.
~ Stephen Chbosky
I hope it's the kind of second side that he can listen to whenever he drives alone and feel like he belongs to something whenever he's sad. I hope it can be that for him.
~ Stephen Chbosky
The reason I am thinking so far in advance is because school is terribly lonely. I think I've said that before, but it's getting harder every day.
~ Stephen Chbosky
I don't know how much longer I can keep going without a friend. I used to be able to do it very easily, but that was before I knew what having a friend was like. It's much easier not to know things sometimes. And to have french fries with your mom be enough.
~ Stephen Chbosky
It would be very nice to have a friend again. I would like that even more than a date.
~ Stephen Chbosky
I don't know how much longer I can keep going without a friend. I used to be able to do it very easily, but that was before I knew what having a friend was like. It's much easier not to know things sometimes.
~ Stephen Chbosky
The nights he would pick up someone always made him sad. It's hard, too, because Patrick began every night really excited. He always said he felt free. And tonight was his destiny. And things like that. But by the end of that night, he just looked sad.
~ Stephen Chbosky
Bob says that when you're alone, and you light a cigarette, and the cigarette is only half way lit that means someone is thinking about you. He also says that when you find a penny, it's only lucky if it's heads-up. He says the best thing to do is find a lucky penny when you're with someone and give the other person goodluck ".
~ Stephen Chbosky
No sé cuánto tiempo más puedo seguir adelante sin un amigo. Solía ser capaz de hacerlo muy fácilmente, pero eso fue antes de que supiera lo que significa tener un amigo.
~ Stephen Chbosky
I knew it wasn't fair, though, to ruin her time just because I miss everybody, so I just said good night and left.
~ Stephen Chbosky
I just need to know that someone out there listens and understands and doesn't try to sleep with people even if they could have. I need to know that these people exist.... So this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.
~ Stephen Chbosky
I hope it's the kind of second side that he can listen to whenever he drives alone and feel like he belongs to something whenever he's sad.
~ Stephen Chbosky
There were many who went in huddled procession, They knew not wither, But, at any rate, success or calamity Would attend all in equality. There was one who sought a new road, He went into direful thickets, And ultimately he died thus, alone; But they said he had courage.
~ Stephen Crane
The wind had a voice as it came over the waves, and it was sadder than the end.
~ Stephen Crane
I heard thee laugh, And in this merriment I defined the measure of my pain; I knew that I was alone, Alone with love, Poor shivering love, And he, little sprite, Came to watch with me, And at midnight We were like two creatures by a dead camp-fire.
~ Stephen Crane
In the darkness he saw visions of a thousand-tongued fear that would babble at his back and cause him to flee, while others were going coolly about their country's business. He admitted that he would not be able to cope with this monster. He felt that every nerve in his body would be an ear to hear the voices, while other men would remain stolid and deaf.
~ Stephen Crane