Quotes About Loneliness

Those who sit at the gate mock me, and I am the song of drunkards.

Insults have broken my heart, and I am in despair. I looked for sympathy, but there was none, for comforters, but I found no one.

You have removed my friends from me; You have made me repulsive to them; I am confined and cannot escape.

You have removed my beloved and my friend; darkness is my closest companion.

I am like a desert owl, like an owl among the ruins.

I lie awake; I am like a lone bird on a housetop.

Look to my right and see; no one attends to me. There is no refuge for me; no one cares for my soul.

All the brothers of a poor man hate him—how much more do his friends avoid him! He may pursue them with pleading, but they are nowhere to be found.

an unloved woman who marries, and a maidservant who supplants her mistress.

There is a man all alone, without even a son or brother. And though there is no end to his labor, his eyes are still not content with his wealth: “For whom do I toil and bereave my soul of enjoyment?” This too is futile—a miserable task.

When I look, there is no one; there is no counselor among them; when I ask them, they have nothing to say.

Among all the sons she bore, there is no one to guide her; among all the sons she brought up, there is no one to take her hand.

My tent is destroyed, and all its ropes are snapped. My sons have departed from me and are no more. I have no one left to pitch my tent or set up my curtains.

Woe to me, my mother, that you have borne me, a man of strife and conflict in all the land. I have neither lent nor borrowed, yet everyone curses me.

He will be like a shrub in the desert; he will not see when prosperity comes. He will dwell in the parched places of the desert, in a salt land where no one lives.

How lonely lies the city, once so full of people! She who was great among the nations has become a widow. The princess of the provinces has become a slave.

She weeps aloud in the night, with tears upon her cheeks. Among all her lovers there is no one to comfort her. All her friends have betrayed her; they have become her enemies.

Then everyone deserted Him and fled.

“Lord, they have killed Your prophets and torn down Your altars. I am the only one left, and they are seeking my life as well”?

You know that everyone in the Province of Asia has deserted me, including Phygelus and Hermogenes.

At my first defense, no one stood with me, but everyone deserted me. May it not be charged against them.