Quotes About Loneliness

Waiting for someone to rescue him from abandment. Waiting. There was no one.

Waiting for someone to rescue him from abandonment. Waiting. There was no one.

I know the dark delight of being strange, The penalty of difference in the crowd, The loneliness of wisdom among fools...

I know the dark delight of being strange, The penalty of difference in the crowd, The loneliness of wisdom among fools, Yet never have I felt but very proud, Though I have suffered agonies of hell, Of living in my own peculiar cell. - My House

In a taxi speeding uptown on the West Side Highway, I let my thoughts drift below the surface of the Hudson until it finally occurs to me that feelings fill the gaps created by the indirectness of experience. Though the experience is social, thoughts carry it into a singular space and it is this that causes the feelings of loneliness; or it is this that collides the feeling with the experience so that what is left is the solitude called loneliness.

He said, I don't know what the water wanted. It wanted to show you no one would come.

Because the foundations for loneliness begin in the dreamscapes you create. Their resemblance to reality reflects disappointment first.

Neîn?elegerile dintre p?rin?i, b?d?r?nia tat?lui, plictisul ?i melancolia mamei o f?ceau s? se team? de consecin?ele dragostei. Dac? via?a în doi ducea automat la triste?e ?i regrete, la ce bun s? te mai obose?ti?

and there I was, caught in the crossfire, aware of how loud a house could be in the absence of sound.

She just stood there and looked at the empty highway, and you could almost tell how bored she was by the way she stood.

Nothing else wounds so deeply and irreparably. Nothing else robs us of hope so much as being unloved by one we love

It's only when you've lost someone that you realize the nonsense of that phrase "It's a small world". It isn't. It's a vast, devouring world, especially if you're alone.

When everything has left you, you are alone. When you have left everything, you are lonely.

All there is, is fragments, because a man, even the loneliest of the species, is divided among several persons, animals, worlds. To know a man more than slightly it would be necessary to gather him together from all those quarters, each last scrap of him, and this done after he is safely dead.

The room was cold as the grave.

He was somewhat of a loner by temperament--because though never wholly happy when alone, he was usually slightly more miserable when with other people.

Homesickness springs from the isolation of the soul from its surroundings.

A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Oh! To live alone, always alone, in the midst of the crowd that surrounds me, without a word of love ever coming to gladden my soul, without a friendly hand reaching out to me!

No voice, no low, no howl is heard; the chief sound of life here is a hiss.

You can't understand command till you've had it. It's the loneliest, most oppressive job in the whole world. It's a nightmare, unless you're an ox. You're forever teetering along a tiny path of correct decisions and good luck that meanders through an infinite gloom of possible mistakes.

No one can see another in the darkness, Esch, and that cloudless clarity of yours is only a dream. You know that I cannot keep you beside me, much as you fear your loneliness. We are a lost generation. I too can only go about my business.

Everyday brought me further away from other people, I had been placed out of the world's sight, as if in a cupboard, and I hoped it would stay that way. I developed a yearning for being alone, unkempt, untended.

Nothing had anything to do with me. I was locked up inside myself and evicted from myself. I didn't belong to them and I was missing me.