Quotes About Loneliness

Tal vez se sentía un poco sola o le pareció que era una oportunidad de hacer el amor sin preguntas...

I stroke them, and they always like that, because old people don't have anyone who touches them, and I get them hooked on a TV series, because nobody wants to die before the final episode. Some of them find comfort in prayer, but there are lots of atheists here, and they don't pray. What's most important is not to leave them on their own.

The elderly are the most entertaining people in the world," she eventually told Irina. "They have lived a lot, say whatever they like, and couldn't care less about other people's opinion. You'll never get bored here. Our residents are well educated, and if they're in good health they keep on learning and experimenting. This community stimulates them and they can avoid the worst scourge of old age: loneliness." Irina

Supongo que de ese sentimiento de soledad nacen las preguntas que impulsan a escribir

El espectro de la pobreza, como el de la soledad, rondaba siempre a los viejos.

Conociendo bien su destino, se cuidaba de las mujeres y a lo largo de su vida huyó de todo contacto sentimental, secando su corazón para el amor y limitándose a encuentros rápidos para burlar la soledad

Sa nu-ti treaca cumva prin cap sa mori si sa ma lasi infinit de orfana.

Weinig oude mensen zijn tevreden, Irina. De meesten leven in armoede, met een gebrekkige gezondheid en zonder familie. Dit is de moeilijkste en kwetsbaarste fase van ons leven, erger nog dan je kinderjaren, want met de dag ga je verder achteruit en er wacht je geen andere toekomst dan de dood.

to enjoy her remaining years of good health before she was defeated by decrepitude. She wanted to live abroad, where the daily challenges kept her mind occupied and her heart in relative calm, because in Chile she was crushed by the weight of the familiar, its routines and limitations. Back there she felt she was condemned to be a lonely old woman besieged by pointless memories; in another country, there could be surprises and opportunities.

De vez en cuando lo atrapaba una ansiedad injustificada; para eso contaba con sus pastillas verdes. En esas ocasiones sentía que iba cayendo de manera irremisible en la oscuridad helada del fondo del mar y no había alguien cerca para tenderle una mano y jalarlo a la superficie.

she goes and dies on me, betraying me before I can fulfill my dreams, and leaving me with this incurable despair.

El sentimiento de soledad arrastrado desde la infancia se hizo aún más agudo, pero me consolaba la vaga esperanza de estar marcada por un destino especial que se me revelaría algún día.

Autumn of the Patriarch

Alma was so solitary a person that she had never realized how lonely she was.

He had the awkward tenderness of someone who has never been loved and is forced to improvise

Era broma, claro, porque lo más temible de la vejez no es la soledad, sino la dependencia.

Las aventuras sin amor me ponen triste

lloró largamente a esa mujer que había dedicado su existencia a hacer más cómoda la de otros y que murió sola.

Clinging to the creature developing in her womb, she tried to compensate for the loneliness of a woman who has chosen badly in love' - Paula, p16

I grew up with my dad. He was very eccentric. I had zero supervision in New York. It's kind of like I was an orphan.

Hot girls have so many options. Sitting at home alone any night of the week and searching the Internet for a dude is on zero hot girls' agendas. So they're definitely not coming after you.

I don't socialise. My social life is minus zero.

I literally have zero friends. So I like people to adore me, but I never had a talent that made people adore me.

It is hard being a football loather, a football unfan. I sometimes feel as lonely as the sole survivor in the last reel of a Zombie film, as, one by one, old friends reveal themselves, with their glassy stares and outstretched arms, to have succumbed to the lure.