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Quotes About Loneliness

When I was nineteen and I didn't have a boyfriend, I never felt bad about it. Because I figured someday I would. My friends and I had plenty of fun alone. What ruins the fun is the fear that you'll be that way forever.
~ Caren Lissner
Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.
~ Carl Sagan
Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged (...) Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.
~ Carl Sagan
She had spent her career attempting to make contact with the most remote and alien of strangers, while in her own life she had made contact with hardly anyone at all.
~ Carl Sagan
There is a music for lonely hearts nearly always. If the music dies down there is a silence. Almost the same as the movement of music. To know silence perfectly is to know music.
~ Carl Sandburg
BRICK [to the moon]: I envy you--you cool son of a bitch.
~ Tennessee Williams
True? Yes, I suppose-unfit somehow-anyway.... So I came here. There was nowhere else I could go. I was played out. You know what played out is? My youth was suddenly gone up the water-sprout, and-I met you. You said you needed somebody. Well, I needed some-body, too. I thanked God for you, because you seemed to be gentle-a cleft in the rock of the world that I could hide in! But I guess I was asking, hoping-too much! Kiefaber, Stanley and Shaw have tied an old tin can to the tail of the kite.
~ Tennessee Williams
SevdiÄŸin biriyle birlikte yaÅŸamak daha da büyük yaln?zl?k… tamamen yaln?z kalmaktan daha büyük yaln?zl?k! EÄŸer sevdiÄŸin kiÅŸi seni sevmiyorsa…
~ Tennessee Williams
But I think people always die alone... with or without relations.
~ Tennessee Williams
Living with someone you love can be lonelier — than living entirely alone — if the one that y' love doesn't love you.
~ Tennessee Williams
When we look within ourselves with psilocybin, we discover that we do not have to look outward toward the futile promise of life that circles distant stars in order to still our cosmic loneliness. We should look within; the paths of the heart lead to nearby universes full of life and affection for humanity.
~ Terence McKenna
I am . . . sure that the answer to all of the mysteries that disequilibrate our view of the world are to be understood by looking within ourselves. When we look within ourselves with psilocybin, we discover that we do not have to look outward toward the futile promise of life that circles distant stars in order to still our cosmic loneliness. We should look within; the paths of the heart lead to nearby universes full of life and affection for humanity.
~ Terence McKenna
I am the one who needs rescuing. Save me (…) Save me from going back to being the man I was before I came here. Save me from all the years of loneliness I'll have to endure without you in my arms. Save me from spending the rest of my life longing for a woman I can never have.
~ Teresa Medeiros
Imagine how unbearably, how unutterably cold the Universe would be if one were all alone
~ Terry Bisson
It wasn't simply his choosing to be alone that kept him that way; it was almost a condition of his existence. The feeling that he was an outsider had always been there.
~ Terry Brooks
I thought I was going to die there, alone. I thought I would never see you again. He seemed to shake off the memory and leaned back on an elbow, gazing at her with a lop-sided smile on his face. The Shadrin left some scars that aren't healed yet. But I would have to take off my pants to show them to you. Really? Kahlan gave a throaty laugh. I think I better have a look... to see if everything is all right.
~ Terry Goodkind
Alone, he must bear the weight of a sin he dare not confess to the one person he loves…and has lost.
~ Terry Goodkind
She's the first thing in my mind when I wake and the last thing in my mind before I sleep. I've never felt like this before, Zedd, never felt this alone before.
~ Terry Goodkind
Zeddicus Zu'l Zorander, the great and honorable wizard, stood alone on the wizard's rock his father had given him, and stared out into the night, thinking wizard's thoughts. "Nothing is ever easy," he whispered.
~ Terry Goodkind
Because after my marriage fell apart I felt like an empty parking space, and James just pulled into it.
~ Terry McMillan
It was lonely on the hill, and cold. And all you could do was keep going. You could scream, cry, and stamp your feet, but apart from making you feel warmer, it wouldn't do any good. You could say it was unfair, and that was true, but the universe didn't care because it didn't know what "fair" meant. That was the big problem about being a witch. It was up to you. It was always up to you.
~ Terry Pratchett
the food was good solid stuff for a cold morning, all calories and fat and protein and maybe a vitamin crying softly because it was all alone.
~ Terry Pratchett
The trouble with being a god is that you've got no one to pray to.
~ Terry Pratchett
It struck Mort with sudden, terrible poignancy that Death must be the loneliest creature in the universe. In the great party of Creation, he was always in the kitchen.
~ Terry Pratchett