Loneliness Quotes

And I'm okay with drowning.

~ Pleasefindthis

Afraid to die loveless. Because I think if you die without knowing love in this life, that's how you'll spend eternity. Alone. Frozen. Do you think hell is fiery? I don't. I think hell is frozen.

~ Ellen Hopkins

What happiness to sit in intimate conversation with someone of like mind, warmed by candid discussion of the amusing and fleeting ways of this world ... but such a friend is hard to find, and instead you sit there doing your best to fit in with whatever the other is saying, feeling deeply alone.

~ Kenkō Hōshi (Yoshida Kenkō)

And that is one of the worst things about this life. As a liar, a pretend person, you cannot really truly ever be someone's friend. My American life, it is lonely. Often, it is very, very lonely.

~ Jillian Cantor

We go from curiosity to a search for communion.

~ Sherry Turkle

Adam was not always alone, but he was always lonesome. Even in a group, he was slowly perfecting the skill of holding himself separate. It was easier than one might expect; the others allowed him to do it.

~ Maggie Stiefvater

There’s a line you never get to cross, as long as you live. The edge of your body. You’re trapped inside your skin, and no matter how many times you reach out to touch a friend or a lover, no matter how close you hold someone or how fiercely you make love, when it begins, when it ends, and all the moments in between, you are still yourself, alone. I know you knew this. It was in all the love songs you wrote. I think it was the hidden impulse we both had, down inside, that made us take razors to our skin, that desire to open up and let the world in, to let ourselves out, to take that sharp thin line of flesh and erase it.

~ Michael Montoure

I thought about how often this was needed in everyday life. How we feel lonely, sometimes to the point of tears, but we don't let those tears come because we are not supposed to cry.

~ Mitch Albom

By Fortune's adverse buffets overborneTo solitude I fled, to wilds forlorn,And not in utter loneliness to live,Myself at last did to the Devil give!

~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Art is made by the alone for the alone.

~ Luis Barragán

I knew I didn’t want to be alone anymore.

~ Bill Clegg

There is no Beatitude for the lonesome.The Book doesn't say they are blessed.

~ James Leo Herlihy

Take hands.There is no love now.But there are hands.There is no joining now,But a joining has beenOf the fastening of fingersAnd their opening.More than the clasp even, the kissSpeaks loneliness,How we dwell apart,And how love triumphs in this.

~ Laura Riding Jackson

Solitude is a terrible thing, for it permits the imagination to picture, in detail, that which perhaps should never be articulated.

~ Patrick Mcgrath

I can’t help but imagine what that would be like—to be all alone on this island with eternity taunting me with loneliness. To say goodbye to the last human you will ever see—there is no crueler hand of fate.

~ Jennifer Arnett

Each time I reach outside my skin/I just get lonesome for what's within.

~ Fred Chappell

Maybe this is what alone really is — finding out how tiny your world is, and not knowing how to get anywhere else.

~ David Levithan

It was at this period that Drogo realised how far apart men are whatever their affection for each other, that if you suffer the pain is yours and yours alone, no one else can take upon himself the least part of it; that if you suffer it does not mean that others feel pain even though their love is great: hence the loneliness of life.

~ Dino Buzzati

Watching across the aisles, the Nevers' faces began to change. One by one, their scowls turned sorrowful, their eyes melted to hurt. Hort, Ravan, Anadil, even Hester...as if they too wished they could have such joy. As if they too wished they could feel as wanted. Gone was their will to fight, lost to broken hearts, and the villains shrank into silence, snakes drained of venom.

~ Soman Chainani

Once I accepted the fact that I was bad luck, I shied away from group activities. And groups. And activities. I started spending a lot of time in my room, tucked under my covers reading books. There’s only so much damage a book can do, and I wasn’t worried about hurting myself. Accidentally hurting yourself is way better than hurting other people.Sure, I got lonely for a while. But getting invited to slumber parties just wasn’t worth the stress of wondering if I might accidentally burn down the house with my flat iron or be the only survivor of a freak sleepover massacre. And loneliness is just like everything else—if you endure it long enough, you get used to it.

~ Paula Stokes

I believe that individuals nowadays are probably more aware of their inner loneliness than has ever been true before in history.

~ Carl R. Rogers

The only antidote to the loneliness of the streets was the streets themselves.

~ Orhan Pamuk

I was so used to pretending to be something I wasn't, it shocked me to be seen for what I was.

~ Kim Van Alkemade

Ignore the loneliness, enjoy your presence.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

Isolated people, those who live alone, are always conscious of their condition in the homes of families.

~ Patrick Mcgrath

When you fill a void, isn't the void still there?

~ Marty Rubin

Sometimes the word ‘Desire’ may leave you in a tizzy. Many of us are banking on this word to drive our life forward. These ‘Desires’ may be the single factor that guide and enrich your life. But, there’s a trap.Surgeon Atul Gawande puts it like this in his book ‘Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End, “When we have only our desires to guide us, and they are fleeting, capricious, and insatiable, they provide, ultimately, only torment.”So beware of ‘Desires’. You need to redefine it in a way that makes your life to be endurable.

~ Dipin Damodharan

Life on the farm had fed his soul since he was a child. he was ever grateful to Gott for giving him a chance to work the land and live by the seasons. It was a good life...but a lonely one for a man his age, a man too old to be living with his family.

~ Rosalind Lauer

Hey, I wish we hung out more in high school. Why didn’t we?”“I was hiding,” Jake said thoughtfully.“Me too.”“You?”“In my own way.”Hearing that made Jake wonder if they’d all been in hiding, if he hadn’t been the only one who’d felt alone for so much of high school.

~ Carolyn Mackler

There's nothing like standing kissing-close to a beautiful stranger to make you really feel your loneliness.

~ Phoebe Rose

Love and loneliness, they are both coincidences.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

Prepare for a radio, for nothing is silent like the grave

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Don't forget - you're the one who swam across the freezing sea at night.

~ Haruki Murakami

I was much younger, much hungrier, much more alone. But I was myself, pared down to the essentials.

~ Haruki Murakami

At home, Tommy tried to avoid looking too long at himself in the mirror, for his reflection stirred in him a feeling of great loneliness and a fear that this loneliness might be permanent.

~ Aryn Kyle

What if our loneliness is the result not simply of needing a partner but of needing people? We are made in the image of a relational God, it makes sense that we possess the desire to be together.

~ Debra Fileta

She'd been cross so much of the time and often about small things. Looking back at herself, she thought that her crossness was like a shapeless overcoat, covering loneliness, and it wasn't the old loneliness she'd felt after her mother died, or even an adult version of it, but something different and more punishing.

~ Rosamund Lupton

Most people never realize that loneliness is a gift from God. Not only can it draw us closer to Jesus, it can teach us to cherish a long-awaited marriage relationship all the more.

~ Eric Ludy

I realised I really was shy. And once I was in it, I couldn't escape. I'd go to talk and find my face was made of cement. Nothing would come out. On winter days, I'd feel myself turning grey at the edges and fading into the walls.Was this defensive strategy? It was paralysing. And it went on for years.

~ Janet E. Cameron

Loneliness—since I was trying to escape it—was hell; and yet for the hermit who seeks it, it is apparently happiness.

~ Kōbō Abe