Quotes About Loneliness

Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination, and that's all you have.

People who lead a lonely existence always have something on their minds that they are eager to talk about.

I need someone. I need to hold somebody close. And I need more than this holding. I need someone to understand how I feel at a time like now. And the understanding must be part of the holding.

I am nothing. I'm like someone who's been thrown into the ocean at night, floating all alone. I reach out, but no one is there. I call out, but no one answers. I have no connection to anything.

We're all outsiders in a way. We're all alone and can become very lonely

Left alone with the dial tone...excuse me, operator, why is no one listening?

Hell is oneself, hell is alone, the other figures in it merely projections. There is nothing to escape from and nothing to escape to. One is always alone.

We're all lonely for something we don't know we're lonely for. How else to explain the curious feeling that goes around feeling like missing somebody we've never even met?

Nothing makes us more vulnerable than loneliness except greed.

What good is sitting all alone in your room?

Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books that were written because authors couldn't find anyone to talk to.

There exists no greater megalomania than thinking that we are all alone in this cosmic ocean!

The question is being asked, 'Are we alone?' And though we now focus on that question we need to think beyond that to what if we're not alone? Then what becomes the next imperative question?

But I would not feel so all alone, everybody must get stoned.

People drain me, even the closest of friends, and I find loneliness to be the best state in the union to live in.

Lingering is so very lonely when one lingers all alone.

Often whole days pass without my speaking to anyone.

Since the war nothing is so really frightening not the dark not alone in a room or anything on a road or a dog or a moon but two things, yes, indigestion and high places they are frightening.

We think we are unique, special and deserving of happiness, but we are terrified of being alone.

And a Famous Film Star who is left alone is more alone than any other person has ever been in the whole Histry of the World, because of the contrast to our normal enviromint.

Never say never to anything, .. As you get older, being alone isn't very desirable. You want someone to drink your coffee with, to share your television with. I missed male companionship.

A man in a bookstore buys a book on loneliness and every woman in the store hits on him. A woman buys a book on loneliness and the store clears out.

I'd rather be poor and happy than rich and alone.

Getting through the nights is the toughest part. Being alone. Not having her there to talk to.