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Quotes About Aloneness

Even Vacancy was crowded with her.
~ Graham Greene
But I feel myself marooned on the island of my self.
~ Gregory Blake Smith
Whatever the reason, I felt dishearteningly alone in the city.
~ Gregory David Roberts
Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man.
~ Thomas Carlyle
I had no desire to be seen by anyone, or talk to anyone. Sometimes out walking I would be in such a peculiar state of mind that I would rush home at the merest hint of another person.
~ Sebastian Barry
She felt really alone now. But here's the thing- suddenly she felt as though she belonged inside the aloneness, and that feeling made her whisper aloud, "I never have before. I've never felt at home with myself.
~ Shannon Hale
I feel like a landscape, a ground without a figure.
~ Sharon Olds
Alone, one feels the whole universe, and none of one's personality.
~ Sheila Heti
The emptiness, the way his heels rang on the asphalt, was satisfying, emphasised his aloneness. A man alone, alone late at night with no one to say he should be home in bed.
~ Dan Davin
There are people who have too much space between their ears, and given the time, do nothing but free fall forever inside their head. It's a spooky thing to be left alone inside an angry inner-verse.
~ James St. James
I am alone – quite alone – in the world – the blight of misfortune has passed over me and withered me; I know that I am about to die and I feel happy – joyous.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
I lived in a desolate country where there were none to praise and very few to love.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Lacy was just as happy alone as with company. When she was alone, she was potential; with others she was realized.
~ Steve Martin
And all I loved, I loved alone.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
When you love, deeply love another human being, really deeply, somewhere you will feel that you are still alone, and this very beloved human being has no access.
~ Irina Tweedie
No one to love, none to caress, Left all alone in this world's wilderness.
~ Frank Norris
I have only to renew my pact with Solitude, to which I have tried to be unfaithful.
~ Joris-Karl Huysmans
We live as we dream - alone. While the dream disappears, the life continues painfully.
~ Joseph Conrad
Don't try to follow me. Cats have no friends or allies here. They must walk their path of shadows alone.
~ Erin Hunter
I long for solitude and yet I cannot stand it.
~ Eugene Ionesco
A Solidão não é forçosamente Negativa, pelo contrário, até me parece um Privilégio. Talvez a minha Solidão seja Excessiva, mas eu Detestei sempre as coisas Mundanas. Estar com as Pessoas apenas para gastar as Horas é-me Insuportável…
~ Eugénio de Andrade
We are separate - utterly separate. We do not even share the same space or time with others.
~ Evan Harris Walker
All my habits through life have been singularly removed from any condition of reliance on others, and the feeling - right or wrong - that aloneness is my proper position has prevailed since my early childhood, no doubt nourished and strengthened by many and quick-following bereavements.
~ Dorothea Dix
She came home from work to the noise of fellow youngsters having fun through the partition walls Exacerbating her aloneness Yet she knew this was exactly what she needed Solititude To register what she was feeling Forcing herself to become deaf to all sound except her own
~ Bernardine Evaristo