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Quotes About Loneliness

I remember that I used to mix with my friends who had brothers and sisters. I was an only child.
~ Keith Emerson
I was an only child; I didn't have a sister, or sisters.
~ Beverly Cleary
I didn't grow up with a lot of babies in my life because I only grew up with my parents - I didn't have any brothers or sisters - and I didn't have my family close by.
~ Yvonne Strahovski
As a child my life was shrouded by fear. Every night I would crawl into the alcove outside my sisters' bedrooms and sleep on the floor, just to feel as though I wasn't alone.
~ John Whaite
I talk to my readers on social networking sites, but I never tell them what the book is about. Writing is lonely, so from time to time I talk to them on the Internet. It's like chatting at a bar without leaving your office. I talk with them about a lot of things other than my books.
~ Paulo Coelho
Sitting on a bedroom floor crying is something that makes you feel really alone. If someone's singing about that feeling, you feel bonded to that person.
~ Taylor Swift
My father was never around. It was almost as if he didn't exist. I would tell my friends he was in Cleveland, on business. Sometimes, every six months or so, he would come by for dinner.
~ Danny Aiello
Without strength and courage it's really hard to perform at the highest levels of international figure skating, because you're alone on the ice and you only have seven minutes over two nights to prove yourself.
~ Scott Hamilton
I see creative-writing classes as some sort of AA meeting. It is more of a support group for people who write than an actual course in which you learn writing skills. This support group is extremely important because there is something very lonely about writing.
~ Etgar Keret
I was 5' 10 when I was 14, skinny and flat, with huge feet, and I never had a boyfriend.
~ Jerry Hall
You get really disillusioned, because you thought you were in love. But you realize that you're just alone.
~ Demetri Martin
It must be less wicked to love the wrong person than not to love anybody at all.
~ Edith Wharton
I must confess that I am usually drawn to sadness, and loneliness has never been a stranger to me. But love tried to welcome me, but my soul drew back, guilty of lust and sin.
~ Madonna Ciccone
I've never been in love. I will die without knowing what it feels like to need to see one person's face when you go to sleep at night, to crave seeing it when you wake up. I wish I knew.
~ Libba Bray
Strange that grief should now almost choke me, because another human being's eye has failed to greet mine.
~ Charlotte Brontë, Shirley
I was lonelier than I should be, for a woman in love, or half in love.
~ Edna O'Brien, Country Girl
One Sided Love is nothing but we can say its a one way hurt to yourself in any little moment while you see her
~ Amardeep Singh
Some of us will never ever find true love. Take, for instance me. And I'm pretty sure that guy right there. And that lady with the sideburns. And basically everybody at table nine.
~ Adam Sandler
It is perhaps sad books that best console us when we are sad, and to lonely service stations that we should drive when there is no one for us to hold or love.
~ Alain de Botton
But, visiting Sea, your love doth press / And reach in further than you know, / And fills all these; and, when you go, / There's loneliness in loneliness.
~ Alice Meynell
I almost never get lonely. I love being alone. I'm glad I'm married, and I love my wife. But there's never been a situation in my life where my unhappiness was based on loneliness.
~ Chuck Klosterman
We all know how important love is, yet how often is it really emoted or exhibited? What so many sick people in this world suffer from-loneliness, boredom and fear-can't be cured with a pill.
~ Albert Schweitzer
Your parents don't give you much love, do they?' 'I don't need that stuff,' I told her. 'Henry, everybody needs love.' 'I don't need anything.' 'You poor boy.
~ Charles Bukowski
Why must I be lonely in love?
~ Dan Fogelberg