Quotes About Loneliness

The stars are filming us for no one.

A bedjacket speaks of desperation, and what it says is: toodle-oo.

Suddenly, she jumped up and waved frantically toward the boat vanishing in the twilight. Dark thirty? She doubted Cap'n would even remember he had brought them, much less to pick them up. And no one, no one knew they were here on this uninhabited island in the Graveyard of the Atlantic. Cap'n, come back! she cried. Her words were lost in the threatening wind. But he just waved, and she figured he thought she was waving good-bye. And she probably was—forever.

How terrifying empty beds were. The neatness of the sheets and blankets was like the neatness of a mowed and trimmed graveyard.

Last time she had been here, the room had been pastel, romantic and soft. Now it was icily white. It was urban, out of a slick magazine, as if some cold, successful woman lived here with two possessions and an empty refrigerator.

WE ARE ALL AFRAID of being alone. To teenagers, the idea of being alone is almost as bad as the idea of dying, which at least has a certain romantic appeal.

Always, a shift in awareness includes a period of isolation and loneliness as one gets accustomed to the new level of truth. And then always, new companions are found. No one is left alone for long.

Poor old Rhett, Sawyer mumbled. What about Rhett? I just feel sorry for him if he does come to Burnt Boot. He won't have a pretty little redhead to watch his back.

The room was empty without him. No, the

The girl shook her head. "I feel I'm not wanted. The letter wasn't cordial. Oh dear, what shall I do?" Nancy gave Laura a hug. "You'll be at school and during vacations you can visit friends. And you have a new friend named Nancy Drew!

It happened that green and crazy summer when Frankie was twelve years old. This was the summer when for a long time she had not been a member. She belonged to no club and was a member of nothing in the world. Frankie had become an unjoined person and hung around in doorways, and she was afraid.

His own life seemed so solitary, a fragile column supporting nothing amidst the wreckage of the years.

The way I need you is a loneliness I cannot bear

It was like she was so empty there wasn't even a feeling or thought in her.

It was funny, too, how lonesome a person could be in a crowded house.

Wonderful music like this was the worst hurt there could be. The whole world was this symphony, and there was not enough of her to listen.

Wonderful music like this was the worst hurt there could be. The whole world was the symphony, and there was not enough of her to listen.

It looks to me like everything has just walked off and left me

The loneliness in him was so keen that he was filled with terror. Usually he had a pint of bootleg white lightning. He drank the raw liquor and by daylight he was warm and relaxed.

Then when he had washed the ashtray and the glass he brought out a pistol from his pocket and put a bullet in his chest.

It wasn't like she was lonely and in fact – she had understood it all in every way except with her brain. Now she knew that she knew.

Once you have lived with another, it is a great torture to have to live alone. The silence of a firelit room when suddenly the clock stops ticking, the nervous shadows in an empty house — it is better to take in your mortal enemy than face the terror of living alone.

Lo terrible, en mi caso, es que durante mucho tiempo no he sido más que un Yo. Todo el mundo forma parte de un Nosotros, salvo yo. Si uno no forma parte de un Nosotros, se siente verdaderamente demasiado solo».

Each day was very much like any other day, because they were alone so much that nothing ever disturbed them.