Quotes About Loneliness

He came into the world like a delivery that no one knew what to do with, and nobody wanted to sign for.

I realized that I knew less about loneliness than I had thought - and much less than I would know when he went away.

There must be good marriages somewhere, but to me, marriage had the feel of people tolerating each other, enduring each other because they were afraid to be alone or because each was a habit that the other couldn't quite break.

People speculate about intelligent life, and it's fun to think about, but no one is claiming to have found anyone to talk to out there. I don't care. Life alone is enough. I find it . . . more exciting and encouraging than I can explain, more important than I can explain. There is life out there.

I think people who traveled to extrasolar worlds would be on their own—far from politicians and business people, failing economies and tortured ecologies—and far from help. Well out of the shadow of their parent world.

And of course he was flattered that she wanted him. He was human, and no doubt tired of being alone.

She's neglected and lonely, and like any little kid left on her own too much, she finds ways to amuse herself.

Solitude lies at the lowest depth of the human condition. Man is the only being who feels himself to be alone and the only one who is searching for the Other.

Christ's boundless grace confronts our deep necessities. Christ's promised presence confronts our sad and gloomy loneliness. Jesus thus filled with grace so overflowing, with love so tender, with sympathy so exquisite, with power so illimitable, with resources so boundless, with a nature so changeless, stands before us and says to each trembling heart, 'Fear not!'"

Middle age is when you are sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it is not for you.

Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.

Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.

In a society where people are obsessed with personal space, dogs have come to serve as welcome, neo-human mediators of loneliness and solitude.

Winter, I wrote, was akin to living inside a refrigerator.

But this had always been part of his work—no matter how vast the security apparatus behind you, the fact was that, in the end, you were alone.

what doesn't begin with love and death and end in loneliness?

Annushka also needs to feel someone's gaze on her, to feel that her crying is witnessed by someone, to feel it isn't just addressing a void.

People shouldn't be allowed to live so far away," he said at the front door. "What do you gain by hiding away from the world like this? It'll catch up with you anyway.

Neurosis is the rule, not the exception', and grasping this can help us to see that we are not alone. It is also the starting point for understanding what went wrong and learning that we have a choice: we can simply re-enact the past, or we can rewrite the script.

Then the boy realised,the penguin wasn't lost,he was just lonely.

With you I could live, without you I was already dead.

When the sun has been destroyed for a man, what comfort is there in a world of moonlight?

No me agrada esta calma, este silencio muerto, sin carne, puro hueso.

The flowers withered,Their color faded away,While meaninglesslyI spent my days in the worldAnd the long rains were falling.