Quotes About Loneliness

I am Jack's inflamed sense of rejection

As pessoas usavam o que chamavam de telefone porque odiavam ficar juntas umas das outras e morriam de medo de ficar sozinhas.

The toughest detail to deal with was the loneliness.

The worst aspect of loneliness was the silence.

My tiny life. My little shit job. My Swedish furniture. I never, no, never told anyone this, but before I met Tyler, I was planning to buy a dog and name it Entourage. This is how bad your life can get.

He'd never anticipated that power would be this lonely.

Friendship is what really resolves and mitigates loneliness while not compromising the self in the way that love does, romantic love does.

Die Avantgarde auf allen Gebieten besteht aus den Einsamen, den Freundlosen, den Uneingeladenen. Jeglicher Fortschritt kommt von den Unbeliebten.

Tyler said he was nobody. Nobody cared if he lived or died, and the feeling was fucking mutual.

La gente usa quelli che chiama telefoni perché odia stare nello stesso luogo insieme, ma ha anche paura di stare sola.

It's easy to cry when you realize that everyone you love will reject you or die. On a long enough time line, the survival rate for everyone will drop to zero.

Soy un monstruo invisible, y soy incapaz de amar a nadie. No se sabe lo que es peor.

Podrías ahogarte con tanto silencio.

Somehow, the disappearance of coffee feels worse than the disappearance of all humankind.

The adults, though. They don't say much about him. Or to him. And no other Gungans come to see him, either. Nobody even says his name.

Was this what it meant to grow up, this vast loneliness?

It occurred to me, not for the first time, that Lili's world was not so different from my dioramas, or even from Sirena's installations: you took a tiny portion of the earth and made it yours, but really what you wanted was for someone else -- ideally, a grown-up, because a grown-up matters, has authority, but is also not the same as you -- to come and see, to get it, and thereby, somehow, to get you; and all of this, surely so that you might ultimately feel less alone on the planet.

The whole world seemed a maze of shifting mirrors in which I wandered alone, looking always and frenziedly for the exit back into my real life, where people had substance, did as they said they would, and were whole.

When you're the Woman Upstairs, nobody thinks of you first. Nobody calls you before anyone else, or sends you the first postcard. Once your mother dies, nobody loves you best of all.

Maybe all people who do bad things…are just really lonely.

She was filled with…a delicious blend of loneliness and fear. That's right, I can still remember how she tasted…she was absolutely delicious.

He stood and watched his friend hobble around the house, felt the cold claw of loneliness reach out and touch him with icy fingers. A terrible loneliness. The loneliness of age—of age and the outdated.

He tilted back his head and stared up at the sky and marveled once again, as he had marveled many other times on many other planets, at the sheer, devastating loneliness and alienness of unfamiliar stars.

They will all abandon you. All you have left is my desire for you.