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Quotes About Loneliness

A vast black sleep falls over my life sleep, all hope sleep, all desire.
~ Unknown
There's a thousand different ways a group of people can make someone in their midst feel unwanted.
~ Unknown
There are moments of loneliness when the astonished heart realizes it feels no love.
~ Vicente Aleixandre
This is no life. No life at all. But where is there any life? Nothing happens. Nothing goes on. Boring. Old. Dead. Ghastly." Every object around him was a sham. Whatever he took up turned to dust. The world was a crumbling affair not to be grasped or held. You fell from emptiness to emptiness. You carried around a sack of darkness inside you. Doctor Otternschlag lived in the uttermost loneliness - although the earth is full of people like him . . .
~ Vicki Baum
Oh Marlboro Man, where art thou? Your comeback won't be a minute too soon!
~ Unknown
a companion had seemed unnecessary fuel when her body still burned at the core, waiting to ignite. But now, with the wind blowing icicles through her [Kit] veins, it felt like she, too, was in the grave. All her nuclear energy had been snuffed like a match between the night's icy fingers.
~ Unknown
This is how Mortimer Tate ended up killing the first three human beings he'd laid eyes on in nearly a decade.
~ Unknown
I paid the watchman fifty kopeks so that I could stay after closing time until the stars came out. And I thought: What is man on this earth? A wretched speck of dust which thinks, works, and suffers. What does he leave behind him?
~ Victor Serge
Kiril Roublev glissa, à longues enjambées sur ses skis, jusqu'à a la station suivante, le long de bois silencieux où l'obscurité semblait naître à ras de terre ainsi qu'une brume insaisissable. Un mince croissant de lune bleu terriblement effilé, épousant la forme d'une gorge idéale, monta dans la nuit. Roublev pensa: Vilaine lune. La peur vient tout à fait comme la nuit.
~ Victor Serge
Before my mother's death, I sat anywhere. Now I look for the image of the empty chair near the image of the empty table. An image of me sits down. Depression is a glove over the heart. Depression is an image of a glove over the image of a heart.
~ Victoria Chang
It is frightening to feel that all your happiness is bound up to another person. That without them you don't - you don't particularly want to live'.
~ Unknown
It does not matter how sternly you tell yourself that the crippling paranoia of the small hours of the night is due solely to body chemistry. You still feel absolutely miserable.
~ Unknown
There are times when you just get down, you feel like nobody likes you. We're in high school forever. It's just what we do with it.
~ Russell Lynes
Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain.
~ Christopher Morley
she was consumed by 3 simple things: drink, despair, loneliness; and 2 more: youth and beauty
~ Charles Bukowski
I have the best roommates in the world! It creates a fun sense of family... and that's really important to me. Things can get so lonely without it.
~ Kristen Bell
The monster was the best friend I ever had.
~ Boris Karloff
When you're feeling lonely and no one is around Remember to look inside yourself and a best friend will be found
~ Stephen Cosgrove
Hungry Hungry Hippos is so depressing. You continuously chomp away at those balls and you are alone and it's your birthday.'
~ Thom Yorke
Modeling is a lonely business... You don't speak. You don't really portray anything but an image... the business is so superfluous about dealing with the outside, it messes with your mind.
~ Kim Alexis
These days he was like a zombie, all grim business, just another jerk with an erection.
~ Tom Perrotta, The Leftovers
I'm sort of like a lame, single guy in a red sports car.
~ Billy Corgan
I'm only lonely when I'm driving in my car. I'm only lonely after dark. I'm only lonely when I watch my TV. I'm only lonely occasionally.
~ Melissa Etheridge
It's quiet. No cars. No birds. Nothing.' 'No radio waves,' said the Doctor. 'Not even Radio Four.' 'You can hear radio waves?' 'Of course not. Nobody can hear radio waves,' he said unconvincingly.
~ Neil Gaiman