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Quotes About Loneliness

Sometimes she felt invisible.
~ Unknown
A lifetime of lonely regret or happiness with some pain along the way.
~ Unknown
I'll never be lonely Even if I am alone For I've a precious Savior Who'll come to take me home. But while I'm here His servant I will be With one foot on earth And one in eternity. And I'll gather His crops To populate His land And if I feel weary I'll cling tighter to his hand.
~ Melody Carlson
Potser ens dirà que se li acaba de morir el marit escanyat o que té la lepra. Ja estic fins al capdamunt de les tristeses dels altres... Miri, miri, com s'enrabia... - Qui? - El mar. - Deu estar tip de sentir-nos.
~ Unknown
I thought you had forgotten me." "I have spent my life remembering you.
~ Meredith Ann Pierce
Lingering is so very lonely when one lingers all alone.
~ Mervyn Peake
Cold love's the loveliest love of all. So clear, so crisp, so empty. In short, so civilized.
~ Mervyn Peake
Pretvorio sam se u ?ovjeka koji moli, a to je posljednje bi?e na zemlji. Ispod toga nema ništa.
~ Unknown
Um cego semelha uma ilha: navegante à espera de viagem, um silêncio frente ao espelho.
~ Mia Couto
Às vezes temos luas de mel, outras vezes luas melosas. A maior parte do tempo, porém, são noites sem luar nenhum.
~ Mia Couto
Ave Seria um pássaro No sono das asas ondulava toda a solidão do céu Terrestre, só a fugitiva sombra Paisagem nenhuma lhe dava abrigo Pousado, o corpo de si mesmo se exilava Nos ensinava a deslumbrância da viagem a nós que só na morte olharemos os céus de frente
~ Mia Couto
He longed for company. He was cruel because he didn't know whether or not people felt pain and he wanted to find out and also he wanted to give them his pain to keep for their own.
~ Unknown
Sometimes it gets lonely here, the sea water collapses out beyond the horizon like the dream I thought I understood, only to find waking harder than the dream's horizon.
~ Unknown
Think of the letters which have placed you nowhere, have given you something lonely, and the restraint of all anger at loneliness.
~ Unknown
I open the windows and let night enter the house, From far off white loneliness settles upon the white page. I am convinced it is an act against white loneliness to say so. from "The Man I Heard Of
~ Unknown
If you go away on location for three months and your wife stays at home, you've made a whole new load of friends and she's made a whole new load of friends and you get home and you're kind of strangers.
~ Michael Caine
The whole house seemed to exhale a melancholy breath of emptiness
~ Michael Chabon
I knew I was alone in a way that no earthling has ever been before.
~ Michael Collins
Take me with you. I want a doomed love. I want streets at night, wind and rain, no one wondering where I am.
~ Michael Cunningham
He was empty, and he was full. He was alone. Yes, he was alone among men. He was an alien, a stranger and sojourner like all his fathers before him. He knew now the anguish of exiles, the depth of their loneliness. And he saw that this was a gift, for it was the state of pilgrims journeying toward their own true home.
~ Unknown
Is this, then, the source of the primal wound—the sense of fatherlessness? The wound makes one vulnerable to a lie: you have no father, there is no fatherhood, the universe is abandoned. The wound begets loneliness. Loneliness seeks relief in the theater of the imagination. The imagination ferments a romance. Then romance, impelled by the generative powers of the body, gradually degenerates into erotic fantasy.
~ Unknown
This in turn leaves the soul more frustrated and lonely than ever. Thus the primal lie begets destruction—worst of all, it does so in the name of love.
~ Unknown
Kakva bi utjeha bila imati vlastite organske prijatelje i brinuti se za njih u ovomu usamljenom svemiru. Poput ljudi, oni su kombinacija trnja i zvijezda.
~ Unknown
The pillars of wisdom are these: humility, powerlessness, poverty, loneliness, sickness, rejection, and abandonment.
~ Unknown