Quotes About Loneliness

As an only child to be there when your parents say goodbye, that's tough.

There's only one thing that's kind of hard about being a wife or a girlfriend of somebody in this business. It's that really the only people that you really know are musicians.

Very few people know what it's like being onstage looking out at a sea of bodies.

I talk to people now, and they thought I was so confident. I was doing all this awesome stuff onstage, and they didn't realize I was going through so much loneliness and hurt backstage. It was like high school.

I talked with labels and they wouldn't help with my international career. They said, 'Saara, if you're in Finland you just have to sing in Finnish.' That led to this situation where I felt very lonely. I was really sad and still I was doing gigs all the time. I'd go onstage crying but I was still trying to sing.

I don't want to see him alone. He says things that annoy me. He gives me good advice. Lord Henry smiled. People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves. It is what I call the depth of generosity.

the secrets of art are best learned in secret, and that Beauty, like Wisdom, loves the lonely worshipper.

For us there is only one season, the season of sorrow. The very sun and moon seem taken from us. Outside, the day may be blue and gold, but the light that creeps down through the thickly-muffled glass of the small iron-barred window beneath which one sits is grey

It is to do nothing that the elect exist. Action is limited and relative. Unlimited and absolute is the vision of him who sits at ease and watches, who walks in loneliness and dreams.

My heart stole back across wide wastes of years To One who wandered by a lonely sea, And sought in vain for any place of rest: 'Foxes have holes, and every bird its nest. I, only I, must wander wearily, And bruise my feet, and drink wine salt with tears.' Poem:

He read of the Obelisk in the Place de la Concorde that weeps tears of granite in its lonely sunless exile and longs to be back by the hot, lotus-covered Nile.

Upon the walls of the lonely locked room where he had spent so much of his boyhood, he had hung with his own hands the terrible portrait whose changing features showed him the real degradation of his life, and in front of it had draped the purple-and-gold pall as a curtain.

How alone I am in life! How terribly alone!

All through schools, jobs, and bumming, I haven't even held the hand of a Mexican woman, excepting whores who are all the same anyhow

From that time on she lived in lonely caves.

Errabat nudo per loca sola pede. She was wandering barefoot through lonely places.

una duos nox perdet amantes. one night loses two lovers.

So long as you are secure you will count many friends; if your life becomes clouded you will be alone.

In no company had I ever felt so much an outsider. Yet I liked the company, and wished that it would like me.

I'm lonely, Jeeves.' 'You have a great many friends,sir.' 'What's the good of friends?' 'Emerson,' I reminded him,'says a friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of Nature,sir.' 'Well, you can tell Emerson from me next time you see him that he's an ass.' 'Very good, sir.

he was alone in the endless night that rested over the whole earth, alone in heaven and on earth and among the living and the dead. This he had always been . . . .

I'm going to remember this, I told myself sternly. I'm going to remember how awful they made me feel today. So when I'm scared and alone and whatever else is going to happen to me starts to happen, I'm going to remember that nothing about be as bad as being stuck here.Nothing.

Sylvia's dark eyes widened. You are more than you appear to be Yes. I am a monster of Darkness, a beast, he agreed with her. Her lips tilted up. Can a beast weep in sorrow? Does darkness have the capacity to feel loneliness? I think not.

I'm going to remember how awful they made me feel today. So when I'm scared and alone and whatever else is going to happen to me starts to happen, I'm going to remember that nothing could be as bad as being stuck here. Nothing.