Lonely Quotes

Being lonely and loving your own company are two very different things. Don't ever get them mixed up.

~ Zaeema J. Hussain

Loneliness wasn't just a state of mind, was it? It was tactile. She could feel it. It was a sixth sense, not in some fanciful play of words, but physically. It hurt... it hurt like phagocytes devouring the white matter of her brain. It was merely that she had no friends. She didn't even have a sanctuary in which she could simply be alone.

~ Tom Wolfe

Loneliness wasn't just a state of mind, was it? It was tactile. She could feel it. It was a sixth sense, not in some fanciful play of words, but physically. It hurt... it hurt like phagocytes devouring the white matter of her brain. It wasn't merely that she had no friends. She didn't even have a sanctuary in which she could simply be alone.

~ Tom Wolfe

And the bell jangled, the driver started. The bus whirled off, to the last stop, the lonely room, the lonely night.

~ Brian Moore

Jason knew his life would never be the same again. British intelligence now had an ace up their sleeve, and Jason had to overcome his fears and deal with the secret world he was now a part of. He would have to grow a tough shell around himself. Despite his many friends, his grandparents and love of his father, he was painfully aware he was very much alone in this world. When it came down to it, there was only one person he could really rely on in the world,and he was called Jason Steed.

~ Mark A. Cooper

I used to be fine in my lonelinessbut somethingor someonesnapped me out of itand showed me company. What it’s like to feel at home,and so the going on by myself part wasn’t as easy anymore.Seasons happened and things got colder and harder and suddenly I found myself smoking circles in the airby myself in the snowand I was not okay.

~ Charlotte Eriksson

I seek the city because there is nothing sweeter than not being alone in your loneliness.

~ Charlotte Eriksson

When I look back at myself at age twenty, what I remember most is being alone and lonely. I had no girlfriend to warm my body or my soul, no friends I could open up to. No clue what I should do every day, no vision for the future. For the most part, I remained hidden away, deep within myself. Sometimes, I'd go a week without talking to anybody.

~ Haruki Murakami

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

I often stood in front of the mirror alone, wondering how ugly a person could get.

~ Charles Bukowski

there's no clarity.there was never meant to be clarity.

~ Charles Bukowski

darkness falls upon Humanityand faces become terriblethingsthat wanted more than therewas.all our days are marked withunexpectedaffronts - somedisastrous, othersless sobut the process iswearing andcontinuous.attrition rules.most givewayleavingempty spaceswhere people shouldbe.and nowas we ready to self-destructthere is very little left tokillwhich makes the tragedyless and moremuch muchmore.

~ Charles Bukowski

when you're younga pair offemalehigh-heeled shoesjust sittingalonein the closetcan fire yourbones,when you're oldit's justa pair of shoeswithoutanybodyin themandjust aswell.

~ Charles Bukowski

sometimes all we need to be able to continue aloneare the deadrattling the wallsthat close us in.

~ Charles Bukowski

...it’s not just the person who fills a house, it’s their I’ll be back later!s, their toothbrushes and unused hats and coats, their belongingnesses.

~ David Mitchell

No one loves us here, let’s go to Mars.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

I would like to be with you, but I do love my loneliness too.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

I shall not be lonely. No one who reads is ever that.

~ Mildred Aldrich

And if the world refused to square with his version of reality then it was necessarily an uncaring world, a sour and sickening world, a penal colony, and he was doomed to be violently lonely in it. He bowed his head at the thought of how much strength a man would need to survive an entire life so lonely.

~ Jonathan Franzen

She deserved at least one person who saw her and knew how good she was.

~ Rick Riordan

Ursula craved solitude but she hated loneliness

~ Kate Atkinson

No one is calling me. I can’t check the answering machine because I have been here all this time. If I go out, someone may call while I’m out. Then I can check the answering machine when I come back in.

~ Lydia Davis

I was lonelier than I should be, for a woman in love, or half in love.

~ Edna O'brien

There's not one good thought in that place. There's nothing but waste and want. I can feel his selfish cravings and an abyss of secrets I hope to never know.

~ Steve V. Cypert

Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but i feel more lonely in a crowded room with boring people then i feel on my owm.

~ Henry Rollins

I am not alone, in my aloneness.

~ T. Scott Mcleod

Madoka: Won't anyone notice that Mami-san is dead?Homura: Mami Tomoe's only relatives are distant relations. It will be quite some time before anyone files a missing persons report. When one dies on that side of the wards, not even a body is left behind. She'll wind up forever a missing person... That is what happens to magical girls in the end.Madoka: ...That's too cruel! Mami-san has been fighting all alone for a long time for everyone's sake! For no one to even notice that she's gone... That's just too lonely a fate...Homura: It is just that kind of contract that gives us the power in the first place. It isn't for anyone else's sake. We fight on for the sake of our own prayer. So for no one to notice... for the world to forget us... That is just something we have to accept.

~ Magica Quartet

they have seen the likes of you before, they may be intrigued by the looks of you, but they know that you-like everyone else-will leave them in the end.

~ Terra Elan Mcvoy

To be me is to be different...

~ Robert Fanney

If it’s about me, I can be assured that there will be a bunch of empty chairs in the auditorium of my life; save the one I’m sitting in.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

If I’m my biggest fan, the only person in the stadium is probably me.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

In her experience, groups of friends like that just didn't open up to include underage, undersized geeks like her. They hadn't sounded mean, they just sounded — self-confident. Something she wasn't.

~ Rachel Caine

Whatever the depth of our darkness, God navigated it eons before it was dark. And whatever the duration of our nights, God was there long before it ever turned to night. Therefore, despite our frequent feelings to the contrary, there is no place we might be where God was not lovingly waiting for us an eternity before we got there.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

I don't have to kill myself, living my life is just the same.

~ Aaron Scheerer

Like my loved one, I am convinced that we all have critical conditions. Battles that we undertake behind the hospitals, in lonely alleys, secret locations and sometimes public places that are out of reach to those who seem to care.

~ Phindiwe Nkosi

There is no feeling quite so lonely as failure.

~ Jeffrey Fry

And I wasn’t playing a role – I was trying to be myself.But the harder I was striving, the more I was realizing that I had probably lost that ‘myself’ somewhere between two perfectly performed roles...

~ Simona Panova

To share is precious, pure and fair.Don't play with something you should cherish for life. Don't you wanna care, ain't it lonely out there?

~ Marvin Gaye

Don't let feeling lonely push you into the arms of a person who will make you miserable.

~ Stephan Labossiere

Darkness was my best friend and loneliness my soulmate.

~ Luna Marym