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Quotes About Loneliness

I'm so tired of being here, suppressed by all my childish fears.
~ Unknown
Someone ask me out. I'm tired of being fugly and lonely.
~ Unknown
I'm ready for a somebody. I'm tired of being alone, and second.
~ Unknown
I am not going to wait around all day, waiting for you to tell me the same thing. Even though I might feel special for those few seconds. What about the other 24hours I feel alone?
~ Unknown
I act like I'm fine. Everyone thinks I'm okay, yet when the lights are off & I'm all alone, that is when the tears start to fall.
~ Unknown
Loneliness is no excuse for compromise. Be comfortable with yourself before you choose to be with someone else just to avoid being alone.
~ Unknown
The ray of light beneath his door is extinguished. It is midnight; some one has turned out the gas; the last servant has gone to bed, and he must lie all night in agony with no one to bring him any help. I
~ Marcel Proust
the lie that tries to have us believe we are not inescapably alone in the world, and which, when we converse with someone, prevents us from admitting that it is not we who are speaking, that at such times we try to take on the semblance of other people, rather than be the self that differs from them.
~ Marcel Proust
I might go alone as far as the porch of Saint-André-des-Champs: never did I find there the girl whom I should inevitably have met, had I been with my grandfather, and so unable to engage her in conversation.
~ Marcel Proust
And Monelle said again: I pity you, I pity you, my love. Even so, I shall return to the night; for it is necessary that you lose me before you find me again. And if you find me again, I shall elude you once more. For I am she who is alone. And Monelle said again: Because I am alone, you shall give me the name Monelle. But you shall imagine that I have every other name.
~ Unknown
Y si contemplas las estrellas y se te llena el alma de imposibles, es que mi soledad viene a besarte.
~ Unknown
Cuando llora el corazón sólo Dios escucha, el dolor se eleva desde el alma. Corta el silencio una pequeña oración. Una lágrima en mis ojos, el corazón llora en silencio. Y cuando el corazón está en silencio, el alma grita Dios mío, ahora estoy completamente solo Hazme fuerte... para que ya no tema. Es grande el dolor y no hay hacia donde correr. Ya no me queda fuerza. Cuando llora el corazón, el tiempo se detiene. SAMUEL ALBAZ
~ Unknown
True individuality can be lonely.
~ Marcus Buckingham
For a moment, the future threatened to swamp him, the terrifying infinity of it, like being alone in the Pacific in the middle of a starless night, all that water and time around and below him, the deepest hole in the planet sucking him down into darkness.
~ Marcus Sakey
the queasy purple of light pollution was lonelier than night.
~ Marcus Sakey
Sommige mensen wachten hun hele leven op applaus van de wereld en pas vlak voor hun dood komen ze tot de ontdekking dat ze voor een lege zaal hebben staan spelen.
~ Unknown
Confronted by too much emptiness ... the brain invents. Loneliness creates company as thirst creates water. How many sailors have been wrecked in pursuit of islands that were merely a shimmering?
~ Margaret Atwood
I don't want to see anyone. I lie in the bedroom with the curtains drawn and nothingness washing over me like a sluggish wave. Whatever is happening to me is my own fault. I have done something wrong, something so huge I can't even see it, something that's drowning me. I am inadequate and stupid, without worth. I might as well be dead.
~ Margaret Atwood
I don't want to see anyone. I lie in the bedroom with the curtains drawn and nothingness washing over me like a sluggish wave. Whatever is happening to me is my own fault. I have done something wrong, something so huge I can't even see it, something that's drowning me. I am inadequate and stupid, without worth. I might as well be dead.
~ Margaret Atwood
Today's word was interminable , meaning never-ending. Like his loneliness. Like the love he felt for Kate. Like the awful hurt that wouldn't go away.
~ Unknown
There was nothing but a lonely magnificence of sea and islands
~ Margaret Craven
How must he prove himself? What was it they wished to know of him? And what did he know of himself here where loneliness was an unavoidable element of life, and a man must rely solely on himself?
~ Margaret Craven
Robots would save the elderly from the woes of the ageing flesh.
~ Margaret Drabble
A culture focused on individual freedom can only result in narcissism, polarization, conflict, estrangement, and loneliness. What is the meaning of life when it's all about me?
~ Margaret J. Wheatley