Quotes About Loneliness

Janis Joplin was always wondering when her prince would come, and the wait was such a bore that she purchased total surcease on the smooth, blank, clear, smiling lake of heroin. A famous friend of the famous

What is a man cast out of the kingdom of men?

Exquisite loneliness Bound of mine own caprice I fly on the wings of an unknown chord That ye hear not, Can not discern My music is weird and untamed Barbarous, wild, extreme, I fly on the note that ye hear not On the chord that ye can not dream. — Ezra Pound, from "Anima Sola," Collected Early Poems (New Directions, 1976)

Separation on the River Kiang KO-JIN goes west from Ko-kaku-ro, The smoke-flowers are blurred over the river. His lone sail blots the far sky. And now I see only the river, The long Kiang, reaching heaven. Taking

The loneliest moment in someone's life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.

You see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened to me.

I lived in my head most of the time— a lonely and messed up place —and suddenly there was a higher force called Allah I could lean on. A companion, who'd travel with me this road less trodden... My life. Islam means surrendering yourself to God.

I feel so alone," she said. "You don't realize how much space someone takes up until they're gone and there's too much emptiness. This place never echoed before. Now it does." She was mystified.

When I'm home alone I just dance by myself And you pull my head so close volume goes with the truth Signing off 'I'm alright in bed but I'm better with a pen' The kid was alright but it went to his head

We're the new face of failure Prettier and younger but not any better off Bullet proof loneliness At best, at best

We have often had this particular exchange about climate and landscape and why we both feel so lonely here uprooted. It was what each of us had wanted of course. Besides wanting to experience a place we hated, we wanted to be insomniacs and loners, losers and drop-outs. To know the sky was the only location of meaning and joy left to us.

First you might cry. Because shame and loneliness are almost one. Shame at existing in the first place. Shame at being visible, taking up space, breathing some of the sky, sleeping in a whole bed, asking for a share. Loneliness feels so much like shame, it always seems to need a little more time on its own.

Somewhere to the eastward a wolf howled; lightly, questioningly. I knew the voice, for I had heard it many times before. It was George, sounding the wasteland for an echo from the missing members of his family. But for me it was a voice which spoke of the lost world which once was ours before we chose the alien role; a world which I had glimpsed and almost entered...only to be excluded, at the end, by my own self.

Loneliness is a heavy burden, but i'd rather be alone than make compromises.

I alone with my undiscovered love, without heart, without tears, towards the skies' impossible roof with a huge sun to console me.

Cuando el chino lloraba en el tejado sin encontrar el desnudo de su mujer y el director del banco observaba el manómetro que mide el cruel silencio de la moneda, el mascarón llegaba a Wall Street.

Vuestras lágrimas son lágrimas de los ojos nada más, y las mías vendrán cuando yo esté sola, de las plantas de mis pies, de mis raíces, y serán más ardientes que la sangre.

No duerme nadie por el mundo. Nadie, nadie. No duerme nadie. Hay un muerto en el cementerio más lejano que se queja tres años porque tiene un paisaje seco en la rodilla;

Ninguno de ellos me miraba y yo viajaba como un traicionero." p. 232

Happiness? Do not make me laugh. The rich are not happy. I have yet to meet a single really rich happy man or woman—and I have met many rich people. The demands from others to share their wealth become so tiresome, and so insistent, they nearly always decide they must insulate themselves. Insulation breeds paranoia and arrogance. And loneliness. And rage that you have only so many years left to enjoy rolling in the sand you have piled up.

Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.

I could not describe my loneliness. For the first time, I grasped that I was truly on my own. I could depend on no one. There was no one to share my struggles and hopes.

Surviving felt like its own punishment. What had I done to deserve this? How could I live if my parents weren't somewhere in this world?

Palabras. No hay manera de quitárselas de encima. No le dejan a una estar verdaderamente sola.