Quotes About Loneliness

The man uses his imagination to follow an object of fascination. He is tantalised by the chase, but also tantalises the prey. He does not want to move from his lonely home, because the reality of life might not match up to his imagination.

Bayard is not exactly the sort of person anyone could describe as a friend," he said. "He exists in a universe populated solely by himself.

I heard your dreams, Tamara Trewlynn. I heard your lonely call.

Taziel's clothes lay strewn around the floor of the darkened room, limp ghosts of his long body fashioned in fabric.

The narrow streets and modest plazas were empty of life and slick with rain, while above them the soaring ateliers brooded, their dark windows as blank as weary eyes.

I think she's running from a broken heart. She left it behind her somewhere, but she can still hear it cracking.

Fey little maid. So lonely, and yet not.

Getting through the nights is the toughest part. Being alone. Not having her there to talk to.

Better to suffer the loneliness of the cold throne room than endure the isolation to be found within the crowds of facile courtiers.

She had an emptiness in her eyes like a ghost tired of haunting.

I spun around: the room was so empty, I wasn't even in it.

Nah, mostly they're just students. Bit of weed, bit of booze, bit of studying, bit of pining away in their rooms wondering why nobody wants to shag them.

Louise Hawkley, of the Center for Cognitive and Social Neuroscience at the University of Chicago, calculates that loneliness raises blood pressure to the point where the risk of heart attack and stroke is doubled.

But even then I knew how it was going to be, I could feel the coming silence in the long, poisonous pauses that expanded as the night progressed.

To be alone, and without gods, this—this it is, is Death," Hölderlin puts into Empedocles's mouth in the play and maybe in this we can trace the first whisper of the gigantic tragedy that Nietzsche would articulate in the death of God.

It was three o'clock in the morning. A time when frail people die.

Pauline: "All under-fives are mad Adrian, you used to talk to the moon. You invited it to your birthday party and cried when it didn't turn up." George: "When it went dark and the moon came up, you ran outside and threw a sausage roll at it!

She was alone. She missed him immediately.

Uneasily, I looked on the desk for a note or other evidence of her last time in the shop. But there was nothing, and the store telephone had no blinking lights promising messages, because the power was off.

I have no privacy. But I feel so alone.

around her lonely apartment, she decided to pack up and go back to Alpine Grove.

...I also believe that introversion is my greatest strength. I have such a strong inner life that I'm never bored and only occasionally lonely. No matter what mayhem is happening around me, I know I can always turn inward.

In space … no one can hear your bad jokes.

I don't have the best family life. I'm not going to have a sob story and be like, my parents abandoned me, because they didn't. But they also are not that present. When I'm alone, I'm alone. I don't have anybody to call, and so I have to create meaning from myself.