Quotes About Loneliness

There were real advantages to having a father who didn't care what she did. But if the advantages were so wonderful, why did she feel like crying?

It gets cold in the desert at night, particularly up in the mountains; the stars hammer on the rock and strike frost.

Sivesh cried one name aloud. It was the name of Azhrarn, and in that name was all the pain and loneliness and despair and accusation that any mortal throat could utter.

I felt angry and silly in that feather-itch dress. I felt alone. But one always is, I suppose.

Under the ruthless cold of the gathering stars, Cyrion walked away.

No one is lonely when they read or create. It is only the uncreative who indulge in gossip.

A depressão atormentava Ignatiev todas as noites. Pesada, desconcertante, de cabeça baixa, sentava-se na beira da cama e pegava-lhe na mão - uma enfermeira triste para um doente incurável. E passavam horas em silêncio, de mão dada.

Unfortunately, the world has taken some of the greatest minds God has given us and locked them up in cages. Most very brilliant or creative people seem strange to ordinary people. Geniuses are almost always outcasts. The intelligent are bullied on the playground. They see the world differently and are shunned for it. They nearly all turn out to be lonely at the least, locked up at the worst. It's human nature to encourage the status quo and shun those who see life differently.

There was no life above the surface anyway.

Everyone is a lonely victim of life's complexity.

She lives in a world of her own – a world of – little glass ornaments…

Living with someone you love can be lonelier than living entirely alone, if the one that you love doesn't love you.

Nobody knew my rose of the world but me... I had too much glory. They don't want glory like that in nobody's heart

To you, whoever you are, when I am gone — remember to be kind tonight to some lonely person. For me.

As for me, no one will ever love me. But you could get used to me, couldn't you, Jimmy?

He knew well the singularly strange sensation of loving one's family to distraction, and yet not feeling quite able to share one's deepest and most intractable fears. It brought on an uncanny sense of isolation, of being remarkably alone in a loud and loving crowd. -Anthony's thoughts

And she was alone. Alone in the middle of crowded London, in the middle of a large and loving family. It was hard to imagine a lonelier spot.

If one didn't have love, was it better, then, to be alone?

There's something in me that recognized you. Right from the start. The parts of me that always felt alone, the parts of me that I always kept hidden away, out of sight—I could see that you had them, too.

No one knows how dark the night is until you can't speak into it.

You have always been alone, always self-centered and fearful of opening yourself to other persons, for to do so is to risk rejection and pain. But it is a risk we are born to take, we humans. We cannot live alone, cannot find happiness or peace alone, cannot love alone. The person alone must always be fleeing, always searching. He flees from the loneliness without end. He searches, whether he will or not, for another who will fill his emptiness.

In the later part of his creative life Nietzsche suffered acutely from loneliness. Like his alter ego, Zarathustra, he found himself alone on a (Swiss) mountain top. But, intellectually at least, he accepted this condition. Since, he reasoned, a radical social critic, a 'free spirit' such as himself, sets himself ever more in opposition to the foundational agreements on which social life depends, he reduces the pool of possible comrades, and so of possible friends, to vanishing point.

My heart pounds like a jackhammer, and I can't find the right words. All I can think about is what if both Alan and I had been killed. Zack's an only child. He would have been left all alone.

Vivian had hoped her father would be in bed by the time she arrived home, but she was never lucky where he was concerned. The wine shop was closed, of course, but the lights were still on in their two