Quotes About Loneliness

I don't doubt that a man can live perfectly well on his own, but I'm convinced that he begins to die as soon as he closes the door of his house behind him.

The things men come to eat when they are alone are, I suppose, not much stranger than the men themselves.... A writer years ago told me of living for five months on hen mash.

There is no solitude more dreadful for a stranger, an isolated man, than a great city; so many thousands of men and not one friend.

There's too much beauty upon this earth For lonely men to bear.

I'm a good person and I don't think I'll be left on my own. I don't know when I'll meet a man - I think I'm rushing it. But I am tired of working and not having someone.

Solitude lies at the lowest depth of the human condition. Man is the only being who feels himself to be alone and the only one who is searching for the Other.

The loneliness of the man is slowly being borne in upon me. There is not a man aboard but hates or fears him, nor is there a man whom he does not despise.

It's hard to stay calm when you're terrified, helpless, alone, at the mercy of men with no mercy at all.

Me in a one-man tent crouching over carrier bag. It's not just the lowest point of the trip. It's the lowest point ever. In 38 years.

The battlefield is cold... it is the lonesomest place which men share together.

The General Public is a statistical fiction created by a few exceptional men to make the loneliness of being exceptional a little easier to bear.

Men put me on a pedestal, then never come to visit.

I had grown tired of standing in the lean and lonely front line facing the greatest enemy that ever confronted man -- public opinion.

There are men and women so lonely they believe God, too, is lonely.

Even now, sometimes on street corners... when I meet someone, I see your shadow. I'm sure that even now, you're still wearing that man's cologne... so you can sleep, even alone.

It was as though I had one map inside my head and it led to the man who was waiting for me. Someone who was alone - maybe even more alone - than I was.

Yes, I am seeking a husband. As soon as the right man asks me, I shall say, It is not good for a woman to live alone.

Evil indeed is the man who has not one woman to mourn him.

He thanked her and left the house in the mood of a shipwrecked man who has allowed the rescue ship to pass him by.

On being asked what condition of man he considered the most pitiable: A lonesome man on a rainy day who does not know how to read.

A lonely man on a rainy night who cannot read.

A man is an island in the only sense that matters, not an easy way to be. We live in mystery, a cosmos of separate lonely bodies, men, insects, stars. It is all loneliness and men know it best.

I guess part of the hit-man appeal is the solitude. Everybody is lured to the idea of the solitary life.

Feel like a broke-down engine, ain't got no drivin' wheel. You all been down and lonesome, you know just how a poor man feels.