Quotes About Loneliness

All the eyes flew away from me like mayflies, I couldn't catch a single one

Loneliness is no excuse for compromise. Be comfortable with yourself before you choose to be with someone else just to avoid being alone.

It is wrong to bear children out of need, wrong to use a child to alleviate loneliness, wrong to provide purpose in life by reproducing another copy of oneself. It is wrong also to seek immortality by spewing one's germ into the future as though sperm contains your consciousness.

At that time, I feel sad, and I feel no one knows how hard I work and how many tears. They only know the score. At that time, I feel very lonely because no one understands since they haven't been world No. 1 before.

You know golf is very lonely. When I'm in the States, I feel like if I just think about Taiwan, my friends, my fans, I won't feel like I'm alone.

Misery loves company, and madness calls it forth.

Bu pencere yaln?z. Bu y?ld?z yaln?z, masada unutulmu? bir c?gara gibi - tüten, mavi mavi tüten, tek ba??na. Ben de yaln?z?m, diyor adam. C?garam? yak?yorum, içiyorum. C?gara içip dü?ünüyorum. Yaln?z de?ilim.

The man who let the love of his life pass him by will end up alone with his regrets and all the sighs in the world won't soothe his soul.

An isolated person is doomed beyond remedy." Yasmina Khadra, Swallows of Kabul

The world is a silence broken by the barking of a stray dog.

To have nobody is to have not even yourself. Somebody loving you provides a certificate of existence. When a person feels alone, he can't exist without some small social fable.

The world shrivels me day by day.

I go out there. I'm out there every day. [Pause] There is nothing out there.

The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.

Once, I had a dream of fame. Generally, even then, I was lonely.

And among the sleeping soldiers and colonists in the crypts lay one apart, a woman who had forgotten the meaning of life.

Like depression, loneliness arises from unhappiness creating thoughts feeding into the insula, deepening the negative spiral of thoughts and feelings.

let go of the real source of our unhappiness: our own self-obsession. Stress, loneliness, pessimism, financial worries, and unhappy relationships all have one thing in common: they're all about "me".

His name was Rambo, and he was just some nothing kid for all anybody knew, standing by the pump of a gas station at the outskirts of Madison, Kentucky.

For his thirtieth birthday he had filled a whole night-club off Regent Street; people had been queuing on the pavement to get in. The SIM card of his mobile phone in his pocket was overflowing with telephone numbers of all the hundreds of people he had met in the last ten years, and yet the only person he had ever wanted to talk to in all that time was standing now in the very next room.

and you smile back and try not to think about the fact that you have nothing, absolutely nothing, to say to each other.

The city had defeated her, just like they said it would. Like some overcrowded party, no one had noticed her arrival, and would notice if she left.

I have always been well liked, I think, always well regarded and respected, but having few enemies is not the same as having many friends, and there was no denying that I was, if not "lonely", more solitary than I'd hoped to be at that time.

Living in her University town felt like stayng on at a party that everyone else had left.