Quotes About Loneliness

There is extraordinary similarities between the Midwest in America and Europe in that there is this sense of vast, open sky and loneliness and cold.

Discovering traces of life on Mars would be of tremendous scientific significance: The first time that any signs of extraterrestrial life had ever been detected. Many people would also find it heartening to learn that we're not entirely alone in this vast, cold cosmos.

Sleeplessness is a desert without vegetation or inhabitants.

I grew up as an only child. My parents weren't great conversationalists. We had a quiet house. I'm not very verbal.

When you play in a band, you're in phase with people. When you're a DJ, you're totally off-phase. Your work time is 3 A.M. - 5 A.M. and I don't think you can connect. You're miserable the whole time. Whenever I see a DJ in the airport, they are always on the verge of crying.

One of the most painful parts of a breakup is having the feeling that your life is a story, and then the other person leaves and takes the story with them. And you're left there without it. You're left in this version of life that's basically a succession of events and interactions that don't seem to be going anywhere.

Perhaps it is impossible to understand one's own face. Or perhaps it is because I am a single man? People who live in society have learned how to see themselves in mirrors as they appear to their friends. I have no friends. Is that why my flesh is so naked? You might say—yes you might say, nature without humanity. I have no taste for work any longer, I can do nothing more except wait for night. 5.30:

Unë zotëroj vetëm trupin tim; një njeri krejt i vetmuar, që ka vetëm trupin e tij, nuk mund të fiksojë kujtimet; ato i kalojnë anash. Nuk duhet të ankohem: vetë doja të isha i lirë.

Birdenbire bu kalabal???n içinde kendimi yaln?z ve küçük hissettim. Ä°steseler bana kötülük edebilecek gibiydiler! ...

Yaln?z olmak!' diye ellerini ovuÅŸturarak inliyordu. 'Ak?l dan??acak kimsesi olmamak, doÄŸru yolda m?y?m, deÄŸil miyim bana söyleyecek birisi!' ...

She is wearing her black dress. She isn't crying, but she never did cry, anyhow. It's a bright sunny day and she's like a black shadow creeping down the empty street.

Ben geçmiÅŸimi nerede saklayaca??m? GeçmiÅŸinizi cebinizde saklayamazs?n?z. Onu koyacak bir eviniz olmal?. Gövdemden baÅŸka ÅŸeyim yok benim. Yapayaln?z bir adam, salt gövdesiyle an?lar? durdurup saklayamaz. An?lar üzerinden geçip gider onun.

We had a horrible fear of him because we sensed he was alone.

Yaln?zl???n s?n?r?nda insanlar?n yan?nda duruyorum. Bir tehlike an?nda onlara s???naca??m.

Prima di prendere questa decisione mi sentivo in una solitudine così terribile che pensavo al suicidio. Ciò che mi ha trattenuto è stata l'idea che nessuno, assolutamente nessuno si sarebbe commosso alla mia morte, che in morte sarei stato ancora più solo che in vita.

I am alone now. Not quite alone. Hovering in front of me is still this idea. It has rolled itself into a ball, it stays there like a large cat; it explains nothing, it does not move, and it contents itself with saying no.

Le teníamos un miedo horrible porque sabíamos que estaba solo.

Nothing else loves me, nor ever will. Not even - especially - me. I know what I am and that's not a thing to love.

And so Deb is the only person in the world who gives a rusty possum fart whether I live or die.

I felt like a ventriloquist's dummy, suddenly called upon to perform the whole act alone.

Aside from the fruit basket, the room was as empty as the inside of Dexter on the shelf marked SOUL.

Nothing else loves me, or ever will. Not even—especially—me. I know what I am and that is not a thing to love.

For the first time in my memory, as these passionate strange sensations washed over and through me and finally out and away—for the first time ever I felt something new, different, and unwelcome. I was afraid. I could not say why, or of what, which made it much worse, a lonely unknown fear that roiled through me and echoed off the empty places and drove away everything but the picture of that bull's head and the fear.

I heard myself sigh heavily, and I wondered if this was really how it all ended; framed by a brainless thug, shunned by my colleagues, stalked by a whining computer nerd who couldn't even make it in minor-league baseball. It was well beyond ignoble, and very sad—I'd shown such tremendous early progress, too. The