Quotes About Loneliness

Man would have known he was the son of God; and therein lies your miracle. And not just a notion picked up in books. Because we'd have made that idea the basis of everything: habits, customs, relaxation, pleasure, down to the simplest needs. That wouldn't have stopped the labourer ploughing, or the scientist swotting at his algorithms... what we would have torn from the very heart of Adam is the sense of his own loneliness.

The swimmer adrift on the open seas measures his strength, and strives with all his muscles to keep himself afloat. But what is he to do when there is no land on the horizon, and none beyond it?

The fact that we are I don't know how many millions of people, yet communication, complete communication, is completely impossible between two of those people, is to me one of the biggest tragic themes in the world.

I looked like a person who wanted to abandon his own abandonment around some corner. Like someone looking for a distant and unknown place to release the cats of his sorrow, so that they would never find the way home. Do you know how hard it is to get rid of cats?

He has no friends, no living relatives. No one to call. If we are not in someone else's memory, do we even exist at all?

The only thing I had was Laika, the dog, whose homeless soul was howling through the cosmos. And my brother, the Minotaur.

Now the last person who remembered me as a child is gone, I told myself. And only then did I burst into sobs, like a child.

I open the door to my cottage these evenings on a silence so thick it falls upon me like a blanket. Of all the lonely moments of my day, this is the loneliest. I confess I have sometimes been reduced to muttering my thoughts aloud like a madwoman when the need for a human voice becomes too strong.

Gin a body meets a body Comin' through the rye. Gin a body kiss a body Need a body cry?

Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man.

So lonely 'twas that God himself scarce seemed there to be.

The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

Man's loneliness is but his fear of life.

Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.

The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness.

In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o'clock in the morning.

The night is dark, and I am far from home.

On the outside one is a star. But in reality, one is completely alone, doubting everything. To experience this loneliness of soul is the hardest thing in the world.

Not many people ask me out.

Every time I look at you I get a fierce desire to be lonesome.

The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.

People in big empty places are likely to behave very much as the gods did on Olympus.

There breaks in every Gloucester wave A windowed woman's heart.

Alone, alone, all, all alone, Alone on a wide, wide sea.