Loneliness Quotes

No life is a waste. The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we are alone.

~ Mitch Albom

It's bad to be unable to stand solitude.

~ Leo Tolstoy

Solitude that throws the honest rays of perfect euphoria; Solitude that makes me breathe in the real me; Solitude I call it - my abode, my self made haven; Solitude I call it - the sanguine face of Loneliness.

~ Debatrayee Banerjee

The world itself, like the mask, began to seem difficult to believe in, and I was stricken with an unutterable sense of loneliness.

~ Kōbō Abe

Clever of you, Hemul. But, on the other hand, think how lonely the Groke is because nobody likes her, and she hates everybody. The Contents is perhaps the only thing she has. Would you now take that away from her too -- lonely and rejected in the night? Sniff became more and more affected and his voice trembled. Cheated out of her only possession by Thingumy and Bob. He blew his nose and couldn't go on.

~ Tove Jansson

Sad truth is. . . we all end up alone on some death bed. Yeah? No way to take anybody else's place and no way we can be lying on the same one.”I was at the edge of the white-wed cloth. My shoes filled with concrete, as did my head, looking at the empty shell of what was once a woman full of wonder.“Any way to make someone feel not so alone?” she asked. “The only thing anyone can ever do is help someone feel a little less lonely before they get there.”“How does someone do that?” “Memories. Help create memories. Better ones. Ones to replace the old.

~ S.d. Lawendowski

I stood where they'd left me. I watched them get smaller and smaller as they went down the hallway, leaving me there without a word, not even looking back. Only I was getting smaller and smaller, being swallowed up in the suffocating emptiness of the silent house; so that by the time they came back again, I would have disappeared.

~ Joan D. Vinge

The barriers between animal and human come down very easily. We belong to a single great family, and if we are lonely and unhappy we gladly accept the friendship of our distant relations.

~ Marlen Haushofer

The Groke looked at the hat. Then she looked at Thingumy and Bob. Then she looked at the hat again. You could see that she was thinking with all her might. Then suddenly she snatched the hat and, without a word, slithered like ann icy grey shadow into the forest. It was the last time she was seen in the Valley of the Moomins, and the last they saw of the Hobgoblin's Hat, too. At once the colors became warmer again and the garden was filled with the sounds and scents of summer.

~ Tove Jansson

You are the least-alone person I have ever known. Your heart has always included within it everyone who let you love them, and many who did not.

~ Orson Scott Card

Don’t put all of your focus on dating. Typically, if you’re involved in outside activities and causes that you are passionate about, chances are that you’re meeting people with similar interests.

~ Auliq Ice

Sadly enough, sometimes you and Lenny are the only real human interactions that I have all day. The rest of the day I'm just like a machine that mechnically computes and producesAlso in Stories and Scripts:An Anthology

~ Zack Love

Yes, I do think that not everything from the past is outmoded. Giving yourself a chance to possess something very good, taking your time, that's important. Yes, I think everything goes by too fast these days. We talk too fast. We think too fast -- if we think at all, that is! We send e-mails and texts without reading them through, we lose the elegance of proper spelling, politeness, the sense of things. I've seen children publish pictures of themselves vomiting on Facebook. No, no, i'm not against progress; I'm just afraid it will isolate people even more.

~ Grégoire Delacourt

Sometimes in utter hopelessness I put my cheek on the table like it was someone. I wanted to wake my brain up and be loved.

~ Eileen Myles

Did I read because I was lonely, or was I lonely because I started to read?

~ Grace Metalious

People say how do you live alone? My response-I have time for myself not for loneliness...

~ Ankit_Pandey

She would never forget how his soul was lonely as the moon they’d met under, and how, for several brief moments, she’d been able to chase the loneliness away.

~ Katherine Mcintyre

Bukowski was dead wrong, the man was drunk most likely when he said this. Sometimes you get so fucking lonely that it makes no sense whatsoever. That sense losses meaning and usage, that meaning losses context as the sky pushes down upon you and threatens you to act a little more like your fellow human beings or else it'll cut your throat. When one is this lonely insanity is the only logical route and im on it quite well.

~ Samuel K

I'm never going to be happy, but I could get close now, I think. I could be almost normal. I could have a friend.

~ Alyssa Brugman

No one is materialistic by birth. It the loneliness of that person which makes him, love things that can never love him back.

~ Srinivas Shenoy

Seek me not in your richness, O dear, search not amidst the words talkative. Find me in the moments of loneliness, in the silence of your mighty soul. Within the void of intimate being this is me, the majestic blue - the cessation of all; and here your are in the celestial path.

~ Preeth Nambiar

Truth be told, loneliness had seeped into her bones with the passing of time until it had become her normal way of life.

~ Katherine Mcintyre

...you hold a poemthat functions half as personalnote and half as telescopeto the heightsawaiting us all.

~ Kristen Henderson

It is raining, perhaps clouds voiding their deepest longings! Upon the streams I have drove those paper boats to the farthest. Listening to the lonely drops of rain I am trying in vain to sing melodious, Alas the voice ends deep within! Were you the song within? O my dear, but I know you are silence that sings wordless, a melody hummed nameless!

~ Preeth Nambiar

Here, in my solitude, I have the feeling that I contain too much humanity.

~ Ingmar Bergman

The loneliest thing in the world is lying awake beside someone asleep. ~ The November Story

~ Rebecca Makkai

None of them could help her. She had lost all of them. They would not find out about this; she would not put it into a letter. And because of this she understood that they would never know her now. Maybe, she thought, they had never known her, any of them, because if they had, then they would have had to realize what this would be like for her.

~ Colm Tóibín

Smallness is subversive, because smallness can creep into smaller places and wreak transformation at the most vulnerable, cellular level. In a time when largeness is threatening to topple us, I wish to remember and praise the beauty of smallness, in order to banish the Goliath of loneliness.

~ Sarah Ruhl

A particular variety of loneliness, like peering deep into the darkness. It's only natural, when two separate universes touch.

~ Banana Yoshimoto

But this gives no proper idea of my feelings at all; and no one that has not lived such a retired stationary life as mine, can possibly imagine what they were: hardly even if he has known what it is to awake some morning, and find himself in Port Nelson, in New Zealand, with a world of waters between himself and all that knew him.

~ Anne Brontë

[Sylvia Plath] was now far along a peculiarly solitary road on which not many would risk following her. So it was important for her to know that her messages were coming back clear and strong. Yet not even her determinedly bright self-reliance could disguise the loneliness that came from her almost palpably, like a heat haze. She asked for neither sympathy nor help but, like bereaved widow at a wake, she simply wanted company in her mourning.

~ Al Álvarez

One dead and one alone. That's how the story ends.

~ Karen Quan

I purely came over because I thought you looked extremely lonely. You have an extremely sensitive face.

~ J.d. Salinger

The worst kind of loneliness, I think, is to be in the presence of those you love and have them treat you like you aren't there.

~ John Burley

Two fears alternate in marriage, of loneliness and of bondage. The dread of loneliness being keener than the fear of bondage, we get married. For one person who fears being thus tied there are four who dread being set free. Yet the love of liberty is a noble passion and one to which most married people secretly aspire, -- in moments when they are not neurotically dependent -- but by then it is too late; the ox does not become a bull, not the hen a falcon.The fear of loneliness can be overcome, for it springs from weakness; human beings are intended to be free, and to be free is to be lonely, but the fear of bondage is the apprehension of a real danger, and so I find it all the more pathetic to watch young men and beautiful girls taking refuge in marriage from an imaginary danger, a sad loss to their friends ad a sore trial to each other. First love is the one most worth having, yet the best marriage is often the second, for we should marry only when the desire for freedom be spent; not till then does a man know whether he is the kind who can settle down. The most tragic breakings-up are of those couples who have married young and who have enjoyed seven years of happiness, after which the banked fires of passion and independence explode -- and without knowing why, for they still love each other, they set about accomplishing their common destruction.

~ Cyril Connolly

I wonder if I might be lonelierif I didn't have loneliness

~ Kelli Russell Agodon

He could see her, but dared not remain for fear of annoying her by seeming to be spying upon the pleasures which she tasted in other company, pleasures which - while he drove home in utter loneliness, and went to bed, as anxiously as I myself was to go to bed, some years later, on the evenings when he came to dine with us at Combray - seemed illimitable to him since he had not been able to see their end.

~ Marcel Proust

There had never been any more between us thanchance had brought. But perhaps that makes a greater indebtednessand binds closer than much else

~ Erich Maria Remarque

Could Denny have possibly appreciated the subjective nature of loneliness, which something nature of loneliness, which is something exist only in the mind, not in the world, and, like a virus, is unable to survive without a willing host.

~ Garth Stein

Dying, however, is lonely, the loneliest event of life. Dying not only separates you from others but also exposes you to a second, even more frightening form of loneliness: separation from the world itself.

~ Irvin D.yalom