Quotes About Loneliness

By the time I'm 40, interplanetary travel will be common. Nobody will want to talk to me at that age, anyway.

the best often die by their own hand just to get away, and those left behind can never quite understand why anybody would ever want to get away from them

I hid in bars, because I didn't want to hide in factories.

I thought it was safer and easier to be one my own. But I don't think I was to be invisible anymore because-because it's lonely, and I don't want to be lonely. I don't want to be alone.

A lot of people want to die for a lot of reasons.

A dog gets lonesome just like a human. He wants to associate with other dogs, but when they take him out, the poor dog is on a leash and cannot run around.

She can't just be a face, a body; there has to be more than that, some kind of connection. And I can't connect, don't want to connect, with anyone.

I don't want to sleep alone," she says gently. And I don't force her to. Sarai falls fast asleep curled up next to me in my bed. Right where I want her.

I realize that I want something more. Success is great, but then you also wake up in your hotel room at four in the morning and you're like, wouldn't it be nice to have someone here with me.

Can you imagine how it is, to want to be neither inside nor outside, to want to be nowhere and disappear?

I can't give parties. It's so hard. When I want to call somebody up for dinner they think I'm using them or something. I just can't stand it.

Sort of desolate, decayed, the smell of - I don't want to dramatise it - but death, you know. That is what it feels like, no-man's-land, and it is not a nice place to be.

But sometimes, it's harder to admit to ourselves we want love in our lives than it is to keep living without it.

I've closed my heart down, so many seasons. I didn't want to hurt again, I didn't want to try, so I turned myself to ice and stone, said I don't need anyone, and nobody else would ever make me cry.

Roy Orbison is singing for the lonely, hey, that's me and I want you only.

I can only assume that there's only one thing more frustrating than not being able to find someone, and that's not being found. I would want someone to find me, more than anything.

There's nothing to talk about to strangers anymore, if you know what I mean. Everything I want to say, I say to her.

Nobody wants to phone me, Even collect.

I'm so lonely I don't even want to be with myself anymore.

People are lonely. They want company and your book can provide them company and a little bit of hope. And there's nothing wrong with that.

Everybody wants to be more wanted, until they are.

As soon as I was out in the street, I realized I didn't want to be alone after all, I realized I didn't want to be anything at all.

Some roads were easier to leave than others. Many walked to seek the future, but found only the past. Others sought the past, to make it new once more, and discovered that the past was nothing like the one they'd imagined. One could walk in search of friends, and find naught but strangers. One could yearn for company but find little but cruel solitude.

I have my throne, I have my sword, I have an empire. But I have . . . no-one.