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Quotes About Aloneness

But you can touch everything and be connected to nothing.
~ Mitch Albom
but I would suggest that it is instead our solitude that most disturb us, the fact that we are all but alone despite being in the heart of a city.
~ Mohsin Hamid
He said, "Only you." I was alone and he was alone and we had nothing in common short of being human at night.
~ Monica Drake
Con el tiempo, la soledad se te mete dentro y no se va.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
It looks to me like everything has just walked off and left me
~ Carson McCullers
As Antigone said, I am neither a dweller among men nor ghosts.
~ Thomas Hardy
Well -- I'm an outsider to the end of my days!
~ Thomas Hardy
He had no wish to converse with her: that his bright lady and himself formed one group, exclusively their own, and containing no others in the world, was enough.
~ Thomas Hardy
A man becomes a solitary at the moment when, no matter what may be his external surroundings, he is suddenly aware of his own inalienable solitude and sees that he will never be anything but solitary.
~ Thomas Merton
Eurydice sits alone on a red bed. She has flaming red hair, so flaming that you can't see anything else of her, much less anything else around her. She takes up too much space. Also she's mad. Which has nothing to do with anything. She lives in her own world because she makes the whole world hers.
~ Kathy Acker
He feels sadness more acturely than others do. He's reached his limit, but…he puts on a smile and goes out alone. He's that kind of idiot. So I'm sure he's alone now!
~ Katsura Hoshino
As a child I felt myself to be alone, and I am still, because I know things and must hint at things which others apparently know nothing of, and for the most part do not want to know.
~ Carl Gustav Jung
I'm surrounded by people and feel alone
~ Gayle Forman
Hell is oneself; Hell is alone, the other figures in it merely projections. There is nothing to escape from and nothing to escape to. One is always alone.
~ George Eliot
We'll see you through, Martin, said Antonia . . . So do not be guilty or worried, darling Martin. I won't be guilty or worried, I'll be raving mad, I said. I don't want you to see me through. I want to be left alone by both of you at long last.
~ Iris Murdoch
Every human being lived behind an impenetrable wall of choking mist within which no other but he existed.
~ Isaac Asimov
I don't bother with the outside myself. The last time I was in the open was three years ago. You see it once, you know and that's all there is to it.
~ Isaac Asimov
Even crushed against his brother in the Tube the average Englishman pretends desperately that he is alone.
~ Germaine Greer
I'm the type of person who doesn't want to sit alone in a restaurant or bar.
~ Malin Akerman
At the center of/ all my sorrows/ I have felt a presence/ that was not mine alone.
~ Susan Griffin
it felt as if she'd floated up above the clouds to the edge of space and was now surrounded by a vacuum of nothing. No air, no wind, no feeling in her body. As
~ Susan May
I like melancholy. I like to pretend that I'm alone in the world and I'm just sort of abandoned.
~ Jamaica Kincaid
You think you're alone until you realize you're in it.Now fear is here to stay, love is here for a visit.
~ Elvis Costello
I accept my aloneness. That is, I accept that no one is coming to make my life right, or save me, or redeem my childhood, or rescue me from the consequences of my choices and actions.
~ Nathaniel Branden