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Quotes About Loneliness

That desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love.
~ Samuel Beckett
I looked at the stars, and considered how awful it would be for a man to turn his face up to them as he froze to death, and see no help or pity in all the glittering multitude.
~ Charles Dickens
There is a sweet little horror story that is only two sentences long: The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock at the door... Two sentences and an ellipsis of three dots.
~ Fredric Brown
Nor law, nor duty bade me fight, Nor public men, nor cheering crowds, A lonely impulse of delight Drove to this tumult in the clouds.
~ William Butler Yeats
I actually don't meet very many men because they are, I guess, afraid to approach me or think that I'm from another planet.
~ Claudia Schiffer
His whole future seemed suddenly to be unrolled before him; and passing down its endless emptiness he saw the dwindling figure of a man to whom nothing was ever to happen.
~ Edith Wharton
Modern man's difficulties, dangerous beliefs and feelings of loneliness, spiritual emptiness,and personal weakness are caused by his illusions about, and separation from, the natural world.
~ Benjamin Hoff
One aged man - one man - can't fill a house.
~ Robert Frost
Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Human Dignity has gleamed only now and then and here and there, in lonely splendor, throughout the ages, a hope of the better men, never an achievement of the majority.
~ James Thurber
Since my fried left me,I've got nothing to do but walking.I walk to forget.I walk,I escape,I get further.My friend will not come back,now I am a marathon man.
~ Shel Silverstein
It is a very lonely life that a man leads, who becomes aware of truths before their times.
~ Thomas Reed
I would certainly end up forever crying the blues into a coffee cup in a park for old men playing chess or silly games of some sort.
~ Charles Bukowski
The survival of the fittest is going to make some man very lonesome some day.
~ Evan Esar
If you are a man, Winston, you are the last man.
~ George Orwell
When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
~ Tennessee Williams
Where were you when my heart was breaking? Will you scream out my name when I am dead and gone?
~ Terence Jackson
Alone.'Twas her destiny to be ever surrounded by others, yet ever alone.
~ Teresa Medeiros
No generation in history has taken so seriously issues of health and well-being—both for ourselves and our children. And yet, nonetheless, we have never been lonelier. Our sense of community is breaking down, our sense of belonging has seldom felt weaker, and, silhouetted against this backdrop, couples that once loved one another have never had a more difficult time holding fast.
~ Terrence Real
I heard the teardrop hit my pillow before I even knew I was crying.
~ Terri Guillemets
You left, and my heart is a ceaseless sermon of loneliness.
~ Terri Guillemets
My resolution was all well and good, but what really sustained me during those dark, lonely hours of the night was another deeper, more persistent thought. With every tick of the clock, I was one moment closer to being with Steve again.
~ Terri Irwin
Recognize that every 'out front' maneuver you make is going to be lonely. If you feel entirely comfortable, then you're not far enough ahead to do any good. That warm sense of everything going well is usually the body temperature at the center of the herd.
~ Terry L. Paulson
He had searched for redemption under the bright dead moon, and he had come up empty-handed. Adam would die a thing that was alone and unloved. Just like that moon.
~ Terry M. West