Quotes About Loneliness

This is a lovely party, said the Bursar to a chair, I wish I was here.

Vimes stalked gloomily through the crowded streets, feeling like the only pickled onion in a fruit salad.

He looked up at them, a scruffy Napoleon with his laces trailing, exiled to a rose-trellised Elba.

In a distant forest a wolf howled, felt embarrassed when no one joined in, and stopped.

Had she always been so insulated from human contact, like a bloom encased in frost?

Kalpler,sonuçlar?n? pek deÄŸerlendirmeden seçimlerini yapar.Seçimini yapt?ktan sonra da kendisini bekleyen yaln?z geceleri düÅŸünmez.

Atalar?m?zla ba??m?z olmazsa, hiçbir ÅŸeyle ve hiç kimseyle ba?? olmayan, geliÅŸigüzel sal?nan, yapayaln?z toz zerreleri oluruz.

Home is the place where loneliness disappears. When we're home, we feel warm, comfortable, safe, fulfilled.

You have single men, moving from parish to parish, with no family of their own. It was a formula for disaster." Like

Der Gast Das Kind ist krank zum Sterben, Die Lampe giebt trägen Schein, Die Mutter spricht: mir ist es Als wären wir nicht allein. Der Vater sucht zu lächeln, Doch im Herzen pocht's ihm bang, Stiller wird's und stiller, - Die Nacht ist gar zu lang. Nun scheint der Tag ins Fenster, Die Vögel singen so klar; Die Beiden wußten lange, Wer der Gast gewesen war.

watching the undergraduates make out. They laughed, but the sight hurt her, like a tightness in her chest that kept her from breathing freely. How long had it been since she'd kissed anyone?

This was it , a part of him thought--what he had been waiting for, longing for, all his life. The answer to the loneliness he'd felt since he was a child and that others didn't seem to feel.

And so another miserable, black and weary night. And then another miserable gray and wintry morning.

Ah, how lucky are the lieutenants, the six-foot Junkers, and all the rest of the Don Juan clan!... The bookworm, be he ever so decent and clever, is really only pleasing to himself and a small handful of others. The world passes him by and beckons to life and beauty ... to gay and handsome creatures to whom the hearts of their fellow men continue to turn.

Cuando la situación se vuelve insoportable, cuando a nadie le importas ni le importaste nunca... tiras una botella al mar y con ella se va una parte de tu soledad

Anger was foreign to him; he had only felt it once before. But now it came, a wash of it that made him swell, that drained and left him weak. And he himself was the object of it. For hadn't he known? Hadn't he taken a name for himself, knowing that the name was a crystallization of all he had ever been and done? All he had ever been and done was alone. Why should he have let himself feel any other way?

Had I been screaming, screaming, in some way? I with my life so separate and well-ordered in the company of my green things and my sky and the animals of the hillside? I shouted - it was a demand - I shouted and shook him: Godbody! And as usual he understood me perfectly: 'You was lonesome,' he said.

And let the days go by, and let the time pass, and huddle beneath your impenetrable integument, and wait, and wait, and every once in a long while you will have that moment of lonely consciousness when there is no one around to see; and then it may burst from you and you may dance, or cry, or twist the hair on your head till your eyeballs blaze, or do any of the other things your so unfashionable nature thirstily demands.

El mundo está lleno de personas que se sienten incompletas, personas que tienen todo lo que pueden desear y que sin embargo no son felices, personas que se sienten solas en una multitud. El mundo está poblado casi exclusivamente de fantasmas.

When feeling lonely or anxious, most of us have the habit of looking for distractions, which often leads to some form of unwholesome consumption -- whether eating a snack in the absence of hunger, mindlessly surfing the Internet, going on a drive, or reading. Conscious breathing is a good way to nourish body and mind with mindfulness.

We are too undemanding, too ready to watch whatever is on the screen, too lonely, lazy, or bored to create our own lives. We turn on the TV and leave it on, allowing someone else to guide us[.]

We can feel lonely even when we're surrounded by many people. We are lonely together. There is a vacuum inside us. We don't feel comfortable with that vacuum, so we try to fill it up or make it go away. Technology supplies us with many devices that allow us to "stay connected." These days, we are always "connected," but we continue to feel lonely.

For Warmth I hold my face in my two hands. No, I am not crying. I hold my face in my two hands to keep the loneliness warm – two hands protecting, two hands nourishing, two hands preventing my soul from leaving me in anger.

Many people still believe that we can only be happy when we have a lot of money and power. Looking around, we see many people who have plenty of money and power, but who still suffer very deeply from stress and loneliness. So power and money are not the answer. We have to educate ourselves in the art of living mindfully.