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Quotes About Loneliness

You die at heart from a withdrawal of love.
~ Iris Murdoch
I run, I run, I am gathered to your heart. But no, she thought, it's not like that. I am alone. I cannot reach anybody.
~ Iris Murdoch
It is particularly hard to overcome resentment caused by injustice. And I was so lonely. The bottomless bitter misery of childhood : how little even now it is understood. Probably no adult misery can be compared with a child's despair.
~ Iris Murdoch
He thought, this is hell, not being able to live with oneself.
~ Iris Murdoch
Estás jodido?, pregunto. No lo sé. Si te soy sincero, será el sexo lo que más echaré de menos. Eso y el tener a alguien, ¿sabes? Tommy necesita a la gente mucho más que la mayoría.
~ Irvine Welsh
Because whatever I hear outside, cars scrunching down the narrow, council-house streets, sometimes sweeping their headlights across this fusty old room, drunks challenging or serenading the world, or the rending shrieks of cats taking their torturous pleasures, I know I won't hear that noise.
~ Irvine Welsh
Estás jodido?, pregunto. No lo sé. Si te soy sincro, será el sexo lo que más echaré de menos. Eso y el tener a alguien, ¿sabes? Tommy necesita a la gente mucho más que la mayoría.
~ Irvine Welsh
ah've found fuck all else, ZERO, tae fill this big, BLACK HOLE like a clenched fist in the centre ay my fucking chest …
~ Irvine Welsh
As he reached the door of the chapel and turned back for a last look, he saw that the Virgin too was sad and lonely; the most alone human being God ever put on earth.
~ Irving Stone
There never can be a man so lost as one who is lost in the vast and intricate corridors of his own lonely mind, where none may reach and none may save.
~ Isaac Asimov
Darkness thickened and collapsed about him. Some of it never lifted again.
~ Isaac Asimov
The clown's eyes sidled towards her, then drew away quickly. "But they kept me away from you earlier-and, on my word, you may laugh, but I was lonely for missing friendship.
~ Isaac Asimov
He felt that dull, heart-choking pain that feeds on itself, the pain of a wife no longer by his side at waking, of a familiar world lost…
~ Isaac Asimov
But the house was somehow very lonely at night and Dr. Darell found that the fate of the Galaxy made remarkably little difference while his daughter's mad little life was in danger.
~ Isaac Asimov
Tales without end are told of these massive, lonely figures who bore half-seriously, half-mockingly a motto adopted from one of Salvor Hardin's epigrams, "Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right!
~ Isaac Asimov
Meir the eunuch clutched his naked chin where a beard should have grown.
~ Isaac Bashevis Singer
My mother has a saying: 'One is none.
~ Isaac Bashevis Singer
era apenas la suma de dos soledades y de muchas ausencias.
~ Isabel Allende
Tenía la ternura torpe de quien nunca ha sido amado y debe improvisar.
~ Isabel Allende
My heart is broken, he told himself. It was at that moment he understood the profound meaning of that common phrase: he thought he heard the sound of glass breaking and felt that the essence of his being was pouring out until he was empty, with no memory of the past, no awareness of the present, no hope for the future.
~ Isabel Allende
Lloró creyendo que lloraba por el niño muerto y por Alma, pero lo hacía por sí mismo, por su vida mesurada y convencional, por el peso de las responsabilidades que nunca podría sacudirse de encima, por la soledad que lo agobiaba desde que nació, por el amor que añoraba y nunca tendría, por los naipes engañosos que le habían tocado y por todas las malditas tretas de su destino.
~ Isabel Allende
No era un dolor de músculos entumecidos, sino de tristezas acumuladas y de abandono
~ Isabel Allende
Very few old folk are happy, Irina. Most of them are poor, aren't healthy, and have no family. It's the most fragile and difficult stage of life, more so than childhood, because it grows worse day by day, and there is no future other than death.
~ Isabel Allende
La Lowell wanted nothing; she lived for the day, unfettered, free, fearless; she wasn't afraid of poverty, loneliness, or infirmity. She accepted everything with good grace; for her, life was an entertaining voyage that inevitably led to old age and death. There was no point in accumulating wealth since in the end, she maintained, we all go to the grave in our birthday suit.
~ Isabel Allende