Quotes About Loneliness

At some point, loneliness become less a condition than a habit. In time, you stop looking at your phone wondering why you can't think of anyone to call, stop getting you hair cut, stop working out, stop thinking that tomorrow is the first day of the rest of your life. Because tomorrow is today, and today is yerterday, and yesterday beat the shit out of you and brought you to your knees. The only way to stay sane is to stop hoping for something better.

And beneath the chaos of the moment, Denise becomes aware of a painful truth about herself: she is never as deeply in love with a man as she is in the moment he leaves her.

And no matter which way you turn your desperate gaze, there's absolutely no land in sight, which is strange, because you didn't think you'd gone out that far to begin with.

You're thinking about one woman while trying to reach another, and despite this apparent abundance of women, you feel lonely and desolate as hell, and, almost unconsciously, you drive to the house of a third, and the third woman is your mother.

Being an official divorce brought late-night channel-surfing up to a staggering new level of depressing. I just wanted to belong to someone already.

We can all nod and smile and carry on our end of the conversation in an endless loop while our minds float somewhere outside our bodies. We are thinking about our kids, about finances and fiancees and soon-to-be ex wives, about the sex we're not having, the sex our soon-to-be ex wives are having, about loneliness and love and death and Dad, and this constant crowd is like a fog on a dark road; you just keep driving and watch it dissipate in your low beams.

He left her on the tow-path and began the long walk back to barracks. As he trudged along in the fast-gathering dusk his mood grew bleaker. Females created nothing but trouble.

I'm not crazy or dangerous, just a bit eccentric and lonely.

I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.

She saw herself alone, alive and doomed, strong and helpless, passing in a line of women, her mother before her, the child Lucy, behind, women walking on a temple frieze, Greek women in fluttering robes rounding a vase's girth for ever.

My inspiration are the woman, friendship, and loneliness.

La soledad más absoluta se encuentra en medio de las multitudes más inmensas

Pero pronto se pregunta por qué se estará esforzando en imaginar tanto si ya nadie, absolutamente nadie, le ve.

No sabe que le está hablando, sin saberlo, a su destino marcado por la soledad. Porque a su alrededor ha comenzado a tomar posiciones la niebla y en realidad ya hace rato que ni la última sombra del mundo está interesada en acecharle.

Me gustan mis fiestas de hombre solo. Son como la vida misma, como cualquier cuento de Felisberto Hernández: una fiesta incompleta, pero una fiesta de verdad.

When one spends a long time alone in the Frankfurt airport, one goes crazy at receiving even the tiniest crumbs of affection.

It's that awkward moment when you realize that the only nearby food is you. I

I sought my father in the world of the black musician, because it contained wisdom, experience, sadness and loneliness. I was not ever interested in the music of boys. From my youngest years, I was interested in the music of men.

There, he would live in total anonymity, a small-time bandit with no name. Nobody would believe the stories he would recall. Nobody would believe the history of his sadness.

It offended him and mocked him: the fact that the world didn't die when his heart did.

It is loneliness that makes the loudest noise. This is true of men as of dogs.

A man by himself is in bad company.

There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.

As of 2016, more than twelve million Americans aged sixty-five and above live by themselves, and the ranks of those who are aging alone is growing steadily in much of the world.