Quotes About Loneliness

Se sentía solo con su vida solitaria, pero a veces la soledad era aún mayor cuando estaba rodeado de personas que no cesaban de exigirle cosas. Necesitaba un respiro.

The old man had been tanned by the light of too many beer signs, and it just goes to show that you can't live on three packs of Chesterfields and a fifth of bourbon a day without starting to drift far too fuckin' wide in the turns.

I did not have a happy family life a few years ago. I was divorced, and I was very alienated from my daughter, and I was out there cutting every ribbon and running around New York hosting events for different causes to supplant my loss because I didn't have a family to go home to. Now I don't want to be Mr. Show Business anymore.

I have a lot of friends, but my biggest fear is loneliness. I miss my family in Mumbai, and my biggest nightmare every day is to go back home alone.

Despair – or as I like to call it, des-pair – means feeling unpaired in a world in which it feels like everyone else is paired with a good job, a happy marriage, loving family, caring, and hope – and you're not.

Easter tells us of something children can't understand, because it addresses things they don't yet have to know: the weariness of life, the pain, the profound loneliness and hovering fear of meaninglessness.

"People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges."

"What will I do without a best friend?"

I am left alone in the wide world. My own dear family I have buried: one in Rangoon, and two in Amherst. What remains for me but to hold myself in readiness to follow the dear departed to that blessed world, 'Where my best friends, my kindred dwell, where God, my Saviour, reigns.'

A loveless world is a dead world, and always there comes an hour when one is weary of prisons, of one's work, and of devotion to duty, and all one craves for is a loved face, the warmth and wonder of a loving heart.

You make me feel like a firefly. Trapped in a belljar; starved for love.

The worst feeling is to be ignored once, then twice, then again and again by someone you consider precious.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

I suppose that there are many novels that are set during the summer because it's a lonely time of year. Friends come and go, comfort comes and goes, which makes it a perfect time of year to indulge in melancholia.

Living with someone you love can be lonelier than living entirely alone, if the one that you love doesn't love you.

All my friends are getting married. I guess I'm just at that age where people give up.

When does the loneliness of old age begin?

I never spent much time with people my own age.

I have always had plenty of friends, and now at age sixty, I face four walls as a common prisoner.

I was a pretty shy, lonely kid. I blossomed about age 17, when I went to college.

In those days, between the ages of 12 and 18 you meant nothing. You were the extra place at the side table if someone came to dinner. You were of no interest to anyone.

I went to high school, which was a good thing because I hadn't interacted with many people my age, and I didn't really have friends. I had a million acquaintances and no friends.

The arctic loneliness of age.

Old age is an island surrounded by death.