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Quotes About Loneliness

He pops a bat twice more on home plate, then tosses a ball in the air and swings. The crack of the bat sounds like a paper bag exploding, yet the sound is cold and lonely, too, like a hunter firing on an endless tundra.
~ Unknown
I have no way of telling what I miss I am the only one who misses it
~ W.S. Merwin
If I only had the chance, I'd ask one to dance, and I'd be dancing with myself.
~ Billy Idol
When small drops began to fall and darken the world in penny-shaped circles, no one around him scurried for cover. For lonely people, rain is a chance to be touched.
~ Simon Van Booy
When the cat's away, chances are he's been run over.
~ Unknown
There are no sides in suicide.
~ Anthony Liccione
I never really did Christmas before. Christmas Day? I mean - what's that? What's it all about? I was always flying on Christmas Day
~ Monica Seles
I find Christmas very difficult.
~ Steven Morrissey
It struck him that how you spent Christmas was a message to the world about where you were in life, some indication of how deep a hole you had managed to burrow for yourself
~ Nick Hornby, About a Boy
I had hard feelings around the holidays, the one time of year I couldn't help but fall prey to the canned self-pity Christmas prescribes.
~ Unknown
It's (the lack of communication between the people in his paintings, ed.) probably a reflection of my own, if I may say, loneliness. I don't know. It could be the whole human condition.
~ Edward Hopper
Real loneliness consists not in being alone, but in being with the wrong person, in the suffocating darkness of a room in which no deep communication is possible.
~ Sydney J. Harris
Along with this rapid growth of forms of communication at our disposal - be it fax, phone, email, internet or whatever - human solitude will increase in direct proportion.
~ Werner Herzog
The triumphs of a mysterious non-meeting are desolate ones; unspoken phrases, silent words.
~ Anna Akhmatova
Only one man ever understood me, and he didn't understand me
~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
It may have once been true that computer games encouraged us to interact more with machines than with each other. But if you still think of gamers as loners, then you're not playing games.
~ Jane McGonigal
The person who said that it is lonely at top has no idea what the view looks like from above. ~ Aarush Kashyap
~ Kirtida Gautam, #iAm16iCan
One should have the courage of one's loneliness.
~ Ngaio Marsh
...sometimes I get tired. Sometimes I get bored. And sometimes all I want, more than anything else in the world, is to go on a freaking date.
~ Kiersten White, Paranormalcy
I'm not dating anyone. I don't even know where I am half of the time.
~ Ashton Irwin
I had a date with an inflatable girl. Now I got an inflatable guy looking for me.
~ Rodney Dangerfield
Suffering, failure, loneliness, sorrow, discouragement, and death will be part of your journey, but the Kingdom of God will conquer all these horrors. No evil can resist grace forever.
~ Brennan Manning
But she wasn't around, and that's the thing when your parents die, you feel like instead of going in to every fight with backup, you are going into every fight alone.
~ Mitch Albom, For One More Day
Not to have an audience is a kind of death.
~ Tillie Olsen