Quotes About Loneliness

About Devon, about the lonesomeness of her daughter's life, about—

She said I'd better not make her unhappy because I oughta know that she's never unhappy alone.

My ever-present loneliness only grew worse. How could I complain? I'd come from nothing. I was the luckiest girl in the world. I had a family now. How ungrateful I was, to want anything more.

Then, at last, I had what I didn't know I was looking for: the antidote to my loneliness, which shriveled and withered away. Until that moment, I hadn't realized how much of me it had been.

Dozens. I've been drawing them forever. It was a way to—" I stopped, surprised that I'd almost said the truth about my mother and what these drawings had meant, about the future I'd been promised, my loneliness and need.

So what, then? You're a ghost? Because that's how it feels to me sometimes, Effie. You're a fucking ghost, and all you do is haunt me.

But there are other words for privacy and independence. They are isolation and loneliness.

could imagine what it was like to give up, to feel your mind go as wobbly as your body, reconciling yourself to the idea that death would really be a relief—a respite from lonely suffering.

A lonely Autumn leaf on the road by sticking to another one becomes more resistant to harsh winds. Unity is the midwife of security!

Bridge is nowhere; over the bridge, you feel an emptiness inside you. Bridge is nowhere.

Don't be afraid of loneliness, because everything is a door; even loneliness is a door, it opens to somewhere!

Every time I stepped into madness of the crowds, I longed for the wisdom of the loneliness.

Loneliness opens the door for wisdom and wisdom opens all the doors!

The fate of the bridges is to be lonely; because bridges are to cross not to stay!

There exists no greater megalomania than thinking that we are all alone in this cosmic ocean!

There is always something melancholic about the empty chairs.

There is no difference between a death man and a man without love.

To be a lighthouse, you must be strong enough to resist every kind of storm, to every kind of loneliness and you must have a powerful light inside you!

You can do beautiful things with your friends; you can do beautiful things when you are all alone! In togetherness, listen to the music of the crowds; in solitude, listen to the music of the silence! Be neither afraid of the crowds, nor of the loneliness, because both are blessings!

If water could talk, there'd be some trace of all these years. It would tell of all it had taught him. How the lightest, most transparent things are heavy. How much effort it takes to contain what cannot be held; water runs through your fingers, so you find yourself empty-handed and still thirsty. But as water has no memory, no trace of his rage and loneliness will remain. He has lost those years forever.

Sono come queste pietre afghane. Non ci cresce niente dentro di me

L'ho guardato spesso, quell'estate, il cielo - qualche volta da solo e qualche volta con Marietta. Non ci ho trovato nessun messaggio, nessuna consolazione - neanche se le stelle erranti fossero infinite, e l'universo brulicasse di mondi che non conosciamo. E' solo un ripetitivo, arido meccanismo di corpi che ruotano nello spazio. Il cielo è vuoto.

Left alone with the dial tone...excuse me, operator, why is no one listening?

She misses him more now than when he was away