Loneliness Quotes

I doubt even you can begin to understand the depths of her.

~ Samantha Young

Even in your closest friendships, you're alone. Maybe it's your best friend who, in fact, reminds you, just by making it her business to try to know your heart, that no one can - that our fate is to suffer in isolation and then die. But it's our collective fate! So I guess I'm an optimist.

~ Lauren Fox

We are a singularity that makes music out of noise because we must hurry. We make a harvest of loneliness and desiring in the blank wasteland of the cosmos.

~ Jack Gilbert

He liked lonely places, because he never really felt alone.

~ Eleanor Catton

Don’t you realize the Internet is just a way for millions of sad people to be completely alone together?

~ Wayne Gladstone

The loneliness I endured during that time of my life is something I hope never to experience again.It's more than just the feeling of being isolated. I was disconnected mentally, physically and emotionally from the entire human race, it seemed; I didn't even feel part of it. I was a subspecies of the people who walked the streets and went about their daily lives. I was not part of the world they'd built and lived in. I was like a half-formed variety of what they were; a critter that was intended to be like them but was never finished. I was unworthy of the space I took up in that world and the lies I showcased in order to fit in.

~ Leanne Waters

I had failed him; I knew it. But I could do no more. It was beyond my strength.That night, I think, he explored the uttermost depths of his loneliness.

~ Christopher Isherwood

My intention had not been to find her, for I had been busy being lonely with someone else.

~ Ben Marcus

Religion is what an individual does with his solitariness.

~ Alfred North Whitehead

Aloneness was like riding a bike. At gunpoint. With the gun in your own hand. Aloneness was the air in your tires, the wind in your hair. You didn't have to go looking for it with open arms. With open arms, you fell off the bike: I was drinking my wine too quickly.

~ Lorrie Moore

True, I was rather alone, but loneliness isn't proof of not being right.

~ Krleža

If you had forgotten, it would quickly come back to you. Aloneness was like riding a bike. At gunpoint. With the gun in your own hand. Aloneness was the air in your tires, the wind in your hair. You didn't have to go looking for it with open arms. With open arms, you fell off the bike: I was drinking my wine too quickly.

~ Lorrie Moore

The whole problem of life is this: how to break out of one's own solitude, how to communicate with others.

~ Cesare Pavese

I’m not a good kid. Yeah, look, I’m just a piece of paper with the word sad and a bunch of cuss words written on it.A lousy piece of paper. That’s me.A piece of paper that’s waiting to be torn up.

~ Benjamin Alire Sáenz

Being brave and being alone aren't the same thing.

~ Lyndsay Faye

But a lonely man is an unnatural man, and soon comes to perplexity. From perplexity to fantasy. From fantasy to madness.

~ Daphne Du Maurier

Do you have a shoulder to cry on?Someone who would listen to your deepest woes without judging you?Or is it just you and the image in the mirror?

~ Sanhita Baruah

—Alone, quite alone. You have no fear of that. And you know what that word means? Not only to be separate from all others but to have not even one friend.—I will take the risk, said Stephen.—And not to have any one person, Cranly said, who would be more than a friend, more even than the noblest and truest friend a man ever had.

~ James Joyce

There was a large crowd around us, and every face in it looked happy. We had little opportunity to talk until we reached the woods, where there were no flowers and no people.

~ Sōseki Natsume

Touch my song with your lips, make it immortal,be my beloved, make my love immortal.No restriction of age, not the bond of lives,when someone love should see only the soul,by carving new trend, make the trend immortal.Loneliness of the sky is in my lone heart,with rattleing paayal enter into my life,by giving own breaths make the music immortalmake the music immortal, make my song immortal.World snatched from me, whatever was beloved to me,all won from me, I lost at every moment,by losing your heart you make my victory immortal.written By Honthon Se Chhoo Lo Tum - Jagjit Singh

~ Nirav Sanchaniya

Is this how it is for a species that senses it is going extinct? Is there a feeling of loneliness, or unease, each morning, upon awakening?

~ Rick Bass

El, you are telling me to run away with a man to become his mistress.I am telling you to be happy. Even if it lasts only a little while. We must snatch what we can when we have the chance. Life is so very lonely when we don't.

~ Jennifer Ashley

When traversing the vast sea of loneliness, Oneness is the only true safe harbor.

~ Gary Hopkins

She needed intimacy and a sense of partaking in, not just observing, real life.

~ Eiji Yoshikawa

I look at old photos and it gives me joy and and tells me about the best time I spent with people but they always left a feeling of loneliness & things I missed and I don't feel connected to them at all.

~ Neetesh Dixit

As I was looking at myself in the bathroom mirror, it occurred to me that if all else failed, a man could at least kiss himself, and I stared in to the mirror, conjuring up the memory of the couple in the film. I couldn't get the image of their lips out of my mind. But by now I'd realised I'd not even be kissing myself; I'd be kissing the mirror.

~ Orhan Pamuk

Loneliness is just a passing disillusion we can conquer by acknowledging those around us.

~ Jenny Cutler Lopez

To the turtle, the concept of loneliness is incomprehensible. She always has been alone, and any other social state is unthinkable.

~ Robert H. Baker

I do not worry about the beauty of the world, neither do I care, but it is all dark and dirty when you are not around.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

Of course every girl wishes she could be one of those pop star babes who wave their hands in the air yelling about being survivors but when love sits on one side of you and loneliness on the other, it’s hard to stop the touching and the kissing.

~ Lisa O'donnell

My father could talk about the Romany way of life and its culture. He could talk about freedom and the Scottish spirit. But that was all he could talk about. I was desperate for someone to talk to but there was just nobody there.

~ Sara Sheridan

Lately Mirabelle had reflected wistfully if people even noticed her – a smartly dressed woman who came and went along the Promenade, always alone.

~ Sara Sheridan

Camus had said in his 'Carnets' that the lives of others appear always, from the outside, to have a completion our own dismally lacks. Only when we understand this as a projection - that our lives, too, are unclosed and contingent - do we approach maturity. Alice felt immature. She felt that she was a spy in the cold.

~ Gail Jones

I want to dive in the deepest trench, get locked in the darkest room,get lost in the biggest maze,travel longest to the furthest placebut keep my heart on the safest place...

~ Khushboo Suneja

She lives in a world of her own – a world of – little glass ornaments…

~ Tennessee Williams

When we have no reason to be happy we often think to end ourselves, We often think we have no one in this world, it happens when our loved ones leave us and make us alone in this vast universe.

~ Debolina

Back at home I spent so much time on my own, but never once felt lonely. Here, even though I see hundreds more people each day, I've never felt lonelier.

~ Giovanna Fletcher

Sometimes I feel that I could stand in the middle of the square and scream and thrash about like a wildling, and no one would notice.

~ Kerrigan Byrne

Look at that party the other night. Everybody wanted to have a good time and tried real hard but we all woke up the next day feeling sorta sad and separate.

~ Jack Kerouac

One need not be a chamber to be haunted,One need not be a house;The brain has corridors surpassingMaterial place.Far safer, of a midnight meetingExternal ghost,Than an interior confrontingThat whiter host.Far safer through an Abbey gallop,The stones achase,Than, moonless, one's own self encounterIn lonesome place.Ourself, behind ourself concealed,Should startle most; Assassin, hid in our apartment,Be horror's least.The prudent carries a revolver,He bolts the door,O'erlooking a superior spectreMore near.

~ Emily Dickinson