Quotes About Loneliness

Cause your mama's name was lonely, and your daddy's name was pain. And they called you little sorrow, cus you'll never love again. You ain't got no one to hold you. You ain't got no one to care. if you'd only understand it. nobody wants you anywhere.

It is a fact that I don't get enough love, I never did get enough love

I call my wife and tell her I'm going to sleep at the lab. She reminds me that she left me a week ago. Louis tries to crack me up by pantomiming humping a chimp through the cage.

If I was home alone at night, I cooked myself an entire meal from one of these cookbooks. Then I sat down in front of the television set and ate it. I felt very brave and plucky as I ate my perfect dinner. Okay, I didn't have a date, but at least I wasn't one of those lonely women who sat home with a pathetic container of yogurt.

Excuse me? Tonight you represent every dateless woman in this city, every woman who's about to sit down to a lonely meal of Weight Watchers past primavera she's just nuked in the microwave. Every woman who will get into bed tonight with a book or reruns of Sex and the City as her only companion. You are our shining hope....But no pressure.

I've been happy alone and I've been unhappy without you. I never wanted to depend on anyone, or to let myself care so much I could be made unhappy. But I depend on you and I love you.

Even a good place gets to be a rut, especially if you're standing in it alone... Alone and lonely have the same root.

À noite, quando estou sozinho e a lua derrama as suas lágrimas, sei que o mundo voltaria a ser maravilhoso se estivesses aqui. Sem ti, o meu coração fica vazio, apenas com as lembranças que guarda. Tu, só tu, existes dentro de mim, à noite quando a lua chora.

Grown-ups get lonely at night, and they like to have someone to sleep with. Like Mom and Daddy do. I have my bear, she continued, referring to her favorite stuffed animal. So I don't get lonely.

She wanted him happy, more even than she wanted happiness for herself. And yet, knowing he was on his way to finding what he didn't yet know he wanted made her feel so painfully alone.

What's wrong with standing in the same place if it's a good place?" "Even a good place gets to be a rut, especially if you're standing in it alone. Honey, alone and lonely share the same root.

Um homem nunca está mais sozinho do que quando está rodeado pelo passado.

All the nightmares that had ever plagued a woman alone in the dark loomed in her mind.

shores of Whiskey Beach.

L]oneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding views which others find inadmissible."29

Yet even in the loneliness of the canyon I knew there were others like me who had brothers they did not understand but wanted to help. We are probably those referred to as "our brothers' keepers," possessed of one of the oldest and possibly one of the most futile and certainly one of the most haunting of instincts. It will not let us go.

Is there anything more attractive than a polite person with limitless self-belief? There is not. Avoiding villainy is not that different from avoiding loneliness: First, you must love yourself. And if you do that convincingly enough, others will love you too much.

I'm still alive, but I feel myself dying, person by person by person by person.

I also need to prepare myself for the inevitability of utter boredom: Very often, single people don't do shit. They do nothing, all night long. They sit in a recliner and watch TV. I've probably watched more television than anyone you've ever met, and I don't even own one. Terrible shows, good shows, Golf tournaments in Cancun. C-SPAN. Hours of Oprah. Law and Order. Lonely people love Law and Order, for whatever reason. They prefer the straight narratives. p60

I hate how I don't feel real enough unless people are watching.

People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were too scared of being alone.

To some of us, the nights are too long. To some, the days.

and i can't stand the idea of being alone. i can't bear the thought of being free.

Crying is right at hand in the smothering dark, closed inside someone else, when you see how everything you can ever accomplish will end up as trash.