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Quotes About Loneliness

What did you do in your songs? I don't know, I'll never know, you say. Someone else will write them about me, won't they? I looked into a void of love. And I fell down. There was nothing else there. No where, where I was no one. But I have to sing this song. I'm still here.
~ Alice Notley
but you are incomplete unattached to me . . .
~ Alice Notley
You talk to me in your sleep, the only time you talk to me.
~ Alice Notley
Now I feel I was inserted into life exactly not to do that. For I have been robbed of everything that made me social
~ Alice Notley
I don't know how to be . . . an- ything but empty.
~ Alice Notley
I don't reside on your planet. I have never lived.
~ Alice Notley
No one is kind to me; no one asks me what's wrong.
~ Alice Notley
Who wants to see us anyway?
~ Alice Notley
being discriminated against as a tragic stranger.
~ Alice Notley
I don't want to be in love. I'm tired of another's thoughts. I'm not, I can't stand my own.
~ Alice Notley
I want to say something subtle, but I can't. It's that, now that no one loves me, I don't mind.
~ Alice Notley
She could die now; no one would see it, her.
~ Alice Notley
There is no other in my dreams, no beloved, there's no love . . .
~ Alice Notley
so by degrees I became invisible in that spotted sick-room light and nobody found me there.
~ Alice Oswald
the makeshift character that springs from speaking and looking on and letting everything pass and then the loneliness of being left here endless lost to my lethargy like a dripping tap
~ Alice Oswald
somebody lost out late again
~ Alice Oswald
it makes me shiver like a dead soldier returning his empty clothes to his bride but she's married someone else
~ Alice Oswald
Everything looked the same every morning: all in order and just the same. It was in the nights that the difference held sway and there was no comfort for lost and lonely things.
~ Alice Thomas Ellis
The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account.
~ Alice Walker
Sometimes I feel like I don't belong anywhere, & it's gonna take so long for me to get to somewhere, Sometimes I feel so heavy hearted, but I can't explain cuz I'm so guarded. But that's a lonely road to travel, and a heavy load to bear. And it's a long, long way to heaven but I gotta get there Can you send an angel? Can you send me an angel...to guide me.
~ Alicia Keys
The world can be a challenging place for us women to navigate. We often find ourselves feeling burned out, incapable, and lonely and yet we're still so resilient.
~ Alicia Keys
I'd die if I was Madonna. I'd die. God, what a horrible way to live. And Michael Jackson! To be so famous and to feel so isolated. I feel so bad for them. I don't know how it feels, and I hope it never happens to me.
~ Alicia Silverstone
Elednor,' he said, 'Elednor, why have you betrayed me? Come back to me. Come back to were you belong. I alone need you...
~ Alison Croggon
Lucia began to write with the new pen on a green suitcase afternoons after tea hour during the loneliest hours in an institution of the type of Barnaderg Bay, between tea and bed—the dark and gloomy, often wet hours of the day for half the year, and the poignantly light and melancholy, also often wet hours of the day during the second half of the year.
~ Alison Leslie Gold