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Quotes About Loneliness

Bad people succeed and good people fail, but that's not the end of the story. Miracles happen that nobody sees, and among us walk heroes who are never recognized, and people live in loneliness because they cannot believe they are loved.
~ Dean Koontz
But the more people we love and the more deeply we love them, the more vulnerable we are to loss and grief and loneliness.
~ Dean Koontz
A silent dark...as black as a moonless lake, as a ravine's wings, darkness there and nothing more, merely this and nothing more...
~ Dean Koontz
All this is just a place, she said. And sometimes such a lonely one.
~ Dean Koontz
There are silences and silences. No one of them is like another. There is the silence of grief in velvet-draped rooms of a plushly carpeted funeral parlor which is far different from the bleak and terrible silence of grief in a widower's lonely bedroom.
~ Dean Koontz
Man, I like you. I wish you could like me.
~ Dean Koontz
He weeps like a child, catching his breath and hiccuping,his face drenched with tears.We are random animals. That is who we are, and we have only ourselves, nothing more--there is no greater relationship. [..] We are risen does, not fallen angels. Tomás is strangled by loneliness.
~ Yann Martel
What are we without the ones we love?
~ Yann Martel
but she sits almost asleep, her head drooping to the left, out toward the sky, as if the sky were some stranger's shoulder to lean upon throughout a trip on a train.
~ Unknown
Omul care las? s?-i scape dragostea vie?ii sale va ajunge singur cu regretele sale ?i toate suspinele lumii nu-i pot aduce alinare sufletului.
~ Yasmina Khadra
The illumination that came from the ceiling made everything gloomy and gave me the feeling of having been forgotten by the world.
~ Yasmina Reza
Her manner was as though she were talking of a distant foreign literature. There was something lonely, something sad in it, something that rather suggested a beggar who has lost all desire.
~ Yasunari Kawabata
And the Milky Way, like a great aurora, flowed through his body to stand at the edges of the earth. There was a quiet, chilly loneliness in it, and a sort of voluptuous astonishment.
~ Yasunari Kawabata
I could not bear the silences when the drum stopped. I sank down into the depths of the sound of the rain.
~ Yasunari Kawabata
A voice so beautiful it was almost lonely, calling out as if to someone who could not hear, on ship far away.
~ Yasunari Kawabata
One can't stop and suddenly speak to a complete stranger, can one?......When it happens I could die of sadness. I feel somehow empty and drained....
~ Yasunari Kawabata
Seara, înainte s? adorm, închid ochii È™i num?r b?rbaÈ›ii pe care mi-ar pl?cea s?-i s?rut. Îi num?r folosind degetele. E distractiv. Când sunt mai puÈ›in de cele zece degete m? simt trist?.
~ Yasunari Kawabata
When you're held by the dead, you begin to feel that you aren't in this world yourself.
~ Yasunari Kawabata
Las noches ofrecen sapos, perros negro y cadáveres de ahogados.
~ Yasunari Kawabata
It would be odd to explain, now that he had come to the house, that for an old man who was no longer a man, to keep company with a girl who had been put to sleep was "not a human relationship.
~ Yasunari Kawabata
Y si uno se siente demasiado solo incluso para suicidarse?
~ Yasunari Kawabata
He went to the house, he said, when the despair of old age was too much for him.
~ Yasunari Kawabata
But could there be anything uglier than an old man lying the night through beside a girl put to sleep, unwaking? Had he not come to this house seeking the ultimate in the ugliness of old age?
~ Yasunari Kawabata
Su voz era tan dulce que daba tristeza que reverberara en la noche helada.
~ Yasunari Kawabata