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Quotes About Loneliness

It was too exactly as imagined to be true. But I felt as gladly and expectantly disorientated, as happily and alertly alone, as Alice in Wonderland.
~ John Fowles
When I was going on one day in the car about not having any close friends - using my favourite metaphor: the cage of glass between me and the rest of the world - she just laughed. 'You like it,' she said. 'You say you're isolated, boyo, but you really think you're different.
~ John Fowles
But he was absolutely alone. No one ever wrote to him. Visited him. Totally alone. And I believe the happiest man I have ever met.
~ John Fowles
Sunt plin? de singur?tate byronian?, dar n?am nici una dintre supapele de desc?rcare ale poetului: geniul ?i adulterul.
~ John Fowles
Think what it would be like if you got back to your island and there was no old man, no girl any more. No mysterious fun and games. The whole place locked up forever.
~ John Fowles
But though one may keep the wolves from one's door, they still howl out there in the darkness.
~ John Fowles
Besides, in such wells of loneliness is not any coming together closer to humanity than perversity?
~ John Fowles
Aquí en la frontera, caen las hojas. Aunque mis vecinos son todos bárbaros, y tú, tú estás a mil kilómetros de aquí, siempre hay dos tazas en mi mesa.
~ John Fowles
Noi doi singuri în camer?. Nici trecut, nici viitor. Doar intensitatea È™i profunzimea momentului. SenzaÈ›ia c? totul avea în mod implacabil un sfârÈ™it: muzica, noi doi, luna, absolut totul. Dac? reuÈ™eÈ™ti s? p?trunzi în miezul lucrurilor, nu g?seÈ™ti altceva decât tristeÈ›e, numai tristeÈ›e, mereu È™i pretutindeni, dar o tristeÈ›e frumoas?, argintie, precum chipul lui Hristos.
~ John Fowles
Under the silver nailparing of a moon. I felt, though without any melancholy at all, that sense of existential solitude, the being and being alone in a universe, that still nights sometimes give.
~ John Fowles
Here at the frontier, there are falling leaves. Although my neighbors are all barbarians, and you, you are a thousand miles away, there are always two cups on my table.
~ John Fowles
My only happiness is when I sleep. When I wake, the nightmare begins. I feel cast on a desert island, imprisoned, condemned, and I know not what crime it is for.
~ John Fowles
Las razones por las que estamos aquí forman una cadena tan inverosímil que la posibilidad de que alguna otra civilización tecnológica exista en la Vía Láctea en la actualidad es remotísima. Estamos solos, y lo mejor es que nos hagamos la idea.
~ John Gribbin
forgotten by the world and by those you love
~ John Grisham
I figured you were missing me.
~ John Grisham
The unhappy little home was out in the country, some six miles south of Clanton on an old county road that went nowhere in particular. The house could not be seen from the
~ John Grisham
Liza wiped some tears and decided to keep things dark. No one knew she was there and lights would only attract attention.
~ John Grisham
Dexter's wife, Jackie, was alone in the parsonage on the other side of the church
~ John Grisham
He lived forty-four years and no one cried at his funeral.
~ John Grisham
The night of March 9 was to be one of the longest and most terrifying of Mary's life.
~ John Guy
I think fear keeps people in mundane lives. Fear of freedom, fear of loneliness; it's a powerful opium.
~ Unknown
a trance of desolation
~ Unknown
I told them good night and returned to my room, less lonely and warmed by the brief contact with others like me who felt the need to be reassured that an eye could show something besides suspicion or hate
~ John Howard Griffin
Self-hatred is worse than loneliness.
~ John Irving