Quotes About Loneliness

But then a bubbling tenor voice said kindly, Do not fear. It is a dream. The reassurance spread over him like a blanket. But he could not feel it with his hands, and the ambulance kept on moving. Needing the blanket, he clenched at the empty air until his knuckles were white with loneliness.

this library is another desert. A wasteland of words instead of sand.

One letter written on the backs f postcards, all of them numbered and sent one by one.

Some nights, alone, he thinks of her, and some nights, alone, she thinks of him. Some night these thoughts, separated by miles and time zones, occur at the same objective moment, and Ray and Mirabelle are connected without ever knowing it.

her] mind blackens. The blackness is not a thought, but if it could be pressed into a thought, if a chemical from a dropper could be dripped onto it causing its color and essence to become visible, it would take the shape of this sentence: Why does no one want me?

The self-prepared dinner is a great time killer for lonely people and as much time should be spent on it as possible.

Mirabelle is attractive; it's just that she is never the first or second girl chosen.

She knows that she needs new friends but introductions are hard to come by when your natural state is shyness.

Enjoyment while performing was rare—enjoyment would have been an indulgent loss of focus that comedy cannot afford. After the shows, however, I experienced long hours of elation or misery depending on how the show went, because doing comedy alone onstage is the ego's last stand.

If there were a silent observer, Mirabelle would be seen as a carefree, happy girl who is preparing for a night on the town. But in reality, these activities are the physical manifestations of her stillness.

Having few interests to sustain her, over the next few years she fell into a vacant, mental decline.

When I think of getting married, I worry that my life will be over. I don't want to lose my lifestyle, which in my case often turns out to be going home, watching television alone, and reheating an old slice of pizza.

No specter assails us in more varied disguises than loneliness, and one of its most impenetrable masks is called love.

There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.

Deep in my soul, I've been so lonely, all of my hopes fading away. I've longed for love, like everyone else does, I know I'll keep searching after today.

We, unaccustomed to courage exiles from delight live coiled in shells of loneliness until love leaves its high holy temple and comes into our sight to liberate us into life.

It's a cold bowl of chili when love lets you down.

No matter how many times she was told that she was loved, there was no recognition that the proof was in the abandonment.

One night of love don't make up for six nights alone. But I'd rather have one than none Lord, cause I'm flesh and bone.

You don't believe in love, do you?" - "I think it exists. I just don't think it will ever exist for me.

Unpopular, lonely and loving, Elinor need not trouble, For if she were not so loving, She would not be so miserable.

Take me with you. I want a doomed love. I want streets at night, wind and rain, no one wondering where I am.

Afraid to Die Loveless Because I think if you die without knowing love in this life, that's how you'll spend eternity. Alone. Frozen.

May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.