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Quotes About Loneliness

A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.
~ James Dickey
No one but Night, with tears on her dark face, watches beside me in this windy place.
~ Edna St. Vincent Millay
That is what all poets do: they talk to themselves out loud; and the world overhears them. But it's horribly lonely not to hear someone else talk sometimes.
~ George Bernard Shaw
When she left me I stood out in the thunderstorm, hoping to be destroyed by lightning. It missed, first left, then right.
~ Ted Kooser, Braided Creek
Birth is the start of loneliness and loneliness the start of poetry.
~ Erica Jong
30 cents, two transfers, loveThinking hard about you I got on the bus and paid 30 cents car fare and asked the driver for two transfers before discovering that I was alone.
~ Richard Brautigan
Would the mountain cherry blossoms return my affection for there is no one else out here. /????? ?????? ?? ?????? ??????
~ Former Chief Abbot Gyoson
Though I love your company, your instructions are wasted her. I will always choose the woman who caries me off, I will always sit with the family of loneliness.
~ Leonard Cohen, Book of Mercy
I knew I was alone in a way that no earthling has ever been before.
~ Michael Collins
The emptiness that fills in when once-the-beloved says, "Who are you?
~ Vikrmn, Corpkshetra
If the great internet connects us all ... then why are so many of us becoming increasingly isolated?
~ Stephen Richards
Talking with someone at four in the morning, that's not the thing most people have a simplicity to enjoy.
~ Sarvesh Jain
To an optimist loneliness is freedom, to all others it is prison.
~ Amit Kalantri
May the Lord comfort the lonely and suffering souls.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
There is a lot of pain in being lonely, but a lot of beauty in being alone.
~ Steven Aitchison
You will never be lonely if you love yourself enough
~ Steven Aitchison
Snuggle in God's arms. When you are hurting, when you feel lonely, left out. let Him cradle you, comfort you, reassure you of His all-sufficient power and love.
~ Kay Arthur
Yes," Mom said. "People may want to kill themselves. But no one wants to be depressed, or in pain, or lonely, or hurt.
~ Will Schwalbe
Loneliness is the price we have to pay for being born in this modern world, so full of freedom, independence and our own egotistical selves.
~ Will Schwalbe
Loneliness is the price we have to pay for being born in this modern world, so full of freedom, independence and our own egotistical selves." The young man can't think of anything to say in response. The truth of the statement is too stark for him.
~ Will Schwalbe
Why didn't this one say this, or tell someone that, or let anyone know she or he was so unhappy, so lonely, so scared? Lahiri's characters, just like people all around us, are constantly telling each other important things, but not necessarily in words. WHEN
~ Will Schwalbe
How can you be lonely, Mom said, when there are always people who want to share their stories with you, to tell you about their lives and families and dreams and plans?
~ Will Schwalbe
But missing people and being lonely, she pointed out, are two separate things.
~ Will Schwalbe
There is no place more perfectly lonely than an airport at night when you fear someone you love is dying and you're rushing to see that person.
~ Will Schwalbe