Quotes About Loneliness

There's just an incredible amount of loneliness as a mother, all this solitude no one really speaks to.

The more specific you are about a very general feeling of loneliness is actually how you connect with people.

When it comes to our relationship with loneliness, specifically, it's important to understand how our relative introversion or extroversion informs our preference for social interaction.

It's no fun being a specimen.

Other kids could read, other kids could write, other kids could spell, they could do math. I felt like an alien. I felt like an outcast. I felt like, 'What is going to happen to me?'

I pity anybody who has to spend a day with me.

My reputation as a ladies' man was a joke. It caused me to laugh bitterly through the 10,000 nights I spent alone.

Since I was 15, I have not spent a Christmas or a New Year with my family.

He can't have any friends and maintain his secret identity as Spider-Man. He can't even have a normal sex life. He's a national hero, yet he's a recluse. He's instantly recognized by the public, but he cant tell anyone who he is.

Sob, heavy world Sob as you spin, Mantled in mist Remote from the happy.

I used to travel a lot as a kid and when I first moved to England I felt lonely and my parents were splitting up at the time.

I am an only child, and I guess was spoiled by my parents.

I was very, very quiet. I was always a loner, hardly spoke, and I was quite a nerd in school. So I was an outsider always.

Facebook may not only propagate cyber-loneliness but exacerbate the pain of loss that estranged family members feel when they hear only indirectly, through a third-party posting, news of a child or parent with whom they have not spoken in years.

We are lost, she and I, unseen and not seeing, unheard and not hearing, unknown by others.

I came from a big family. As a matter of fact, I never got to sleep alone until I was married.

There is no loneliness like that of a failed marriage.

A career is a wonderful thing, but you can't snuggle up to it at night.

If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.

There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.

Rosa Hubermann was sitting on the edge of the bed with her husband's accordion tied to her chest. Her fingers hovered above the keys. She did not move. She didn't ever appear to be breathing.

If you fear loneliness, then don't get married.

Evidently, whatever else marriage might prevent, it was not a remedy for isolation of spirit.

Impossible for anyone to conceive the torments of his nights in bed with his beloved one and estranged from her. That turning of backs, that cold space between their two unhappy bodies.