Quotes About Loneliness

It was sad and lonely to be left. You'd go to church and stand there for some time. The school had a chapel. The maser would be there with maybe two or three other students. You had to kill time before dinner. I would go to the reception hall and play the piano. There was no one there, total emptiness.

The group most likely to see themselves as lonely, stressed out, and concerned about the future is the unmarried, whether divorced or never headed to the altar.

She was so pretty, so elegant, it made me lonely just to look at her.

One can never know for sure what a deserted area looks like.

How like a queen comes forth the lonely Moon From the slow opening curtains of the clouds Walking in beauty to her midnight throne!

Hemorrhoids. Cockroaches. Anal warts. Lonely nights. Smoking's ravages. AIDS. All the ads promised relief from these things, but where was the relief from these ads?

There is no hopelessness so sad as that of early youth, when the soul is made up of wants, and has no long memories, no superadded life in the life of others.

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

there is a sense of loneliness: the philosophers are called "weeds" (naw?bit), like the grass that springs up among the crops; they are strangers in their own country,

The killing of his kid brother had drained Josiah Hedges of everything that is good and decent in the human spirit. He was now a killer of the worse kind. A man alone.

Disculpe, pero ¿podría decirme por qué yo no tengo compañero, mientras que todos los demás lo tienen? —le gritó. —¿Por qué? ¡Porque éste es un átomo impar y tú eres el electrón de valenciaaa…!

You and me. This wasn't in the plan. The plan was to be alone, to hide, and to kill Roland. Being happy was never one of the bullet points. Some part of me is still convinced it's a fluke and eventually it will be ripped away from me. Deep down I expect it. Any hint of it and I roll down the cliff. You're mine, you know that, right? If you ever try to leave me, it won't go well.

And most of the time, I like being by myself. But when I look into my future, I see no family, no husband, no children. No warmth. I just see myself getting older and more scarred.

You taught me the meaning of loneliness, because when I don't see you, I feel alone. You

Three years ago, on a night like this I would have been driving my old car home alone, praying it didn't die a noble death in some snow drift. When I rolled up to the house, it would be dark. My heat would be off to save money, my bed would be cold, and if I wanted to tell someone about my day, I'd have to talk to my sword and pretend it listened. Slayer was an excellent weapon, but it never laughed at my jokes.

You two will get along. He's like you." "How's that?" "A big, mean sonovabitch that nobody wants." Ryan realized what he'd blurted out. His face went white.

For a time you can be alone and doing fine and never give a thought to living any other way and then you meet someone and suddenly you become lonely. It stabs at you, almost like a physical pain, and you feel both deprived and angry, deprived because you wish to be with that person, and angry because their absence brings you misery. It's a strange feeling, akin to desperation, a feeling that makes you wait by the phone even though you know that the call is an hour away.

Where is your . . . significant other? He's around. He was never too far. Why, are you worried he'll find out about this romantic rendezvous? The vampire froze for a second. What? You're meeting me in secret on a lonely street in the middle of the night . . . Ghastek's voice was so sharp, if it were a knife, I would've been sliced to ribbons. I find your attempts at humor greatly distressing. Hee-hee. I assure you, this is strictly business. Sure it is, sweet cheeks.

For a time you can be alone and doing fine and never give a thought to living any other way and then you meet someone and suddenly you become lonely.

She looked beautiful and alive, as if the planet had exhaled its magic and conjured her from its breath to taunt him. He wanted to touch her to see if she was real. The woods spread for many kilometers around them, steeped in night shadows and glowing with delicate color. The temple sat within them like a tiny man-made island, and their fire was its heart. It felt like they were the last two people on the planet, just him and her.

When I come crawling home, bleeding and filthy and exhausted, the house is dark and empty.

Monachopsis. It means a subtle but nagging feeling of not fitting in and knowing that you don't belong in the place you are.

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty." ? Mother Teresa

An enemy soldier never seemed to be alone--one human being like any other--but followed, crushed from all directions by innumerable ghosts, the missing and the dead. Speaking to him wasn't like speaking to a solitary man but to an invisible multitude; nothing that was said was either spoken or heard with simplicity: there was always that strange sensation of being no more than lips that spoke for so many others, others who had been silenced.