It is necessary now and then for a man to go away by himself and experience loneliness; to sit on a rock… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
We are not isolationists except in so far as we seek to isolate ourselves completely from war. Yet we must remember that… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
My peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication - it makes them sociable. I, however, cannot force myself to use… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
And behind their frail partitions Business women lie and soak, Seeing through the draughty skylight Flying clouds and railway smoke. Rest you… — John Betjeman Copy Share Image
“It wasn't always like this. There was a time when I imagined my life could happen in another way. It's true that… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
There was all this loneliness in my cartoons and people would say, "Gee, these characters are so lonely, disconnected, depressed." And I'd… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
The man of genius, like a dog with a bone, or the slave who has swallowed a diamond, or a patient with… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I've chosen a life that's so different from everybody else's that it cuts me off from them. Practically everybody I know treats… — Jordan Mechner Copy Share Image
Even the rich aren't often happy. Their wealth is at best only a temporary distraction. It doesn't make them immune to emotional… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: 'This… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Our language has wisely sensed these two sides of man’s being alone. It has created the word “loneliness” to express the pain… — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
“A writer out of loneliness is trying to communicate like a distant star sending signals. He isn't telling, or teaching, or ordering.… — Ken Doggett Copy Share Image
I am alone and my spiritual journey is my experience.' This is the real experience of freedom and independence. Then we begin… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
“Look, everyone mourns at their own pace. Maybe you're just a little bit ahead of her, but she'll get to you eventually.… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
“The human mind feels lonely even when there are so many organs and innumerable cells continuously functioning together in the body. Makes… — Nabil Bhatiya Copy Share Image
Unlike the millions who casually masturbate in solitude while looking at girlie pictures in Playboy and similar magazines, the massage man preferred… — Gay Talese Copy Share Image
“Can I be honest with you, Mr. Wind-Up Bird? I mean, really, really, really honest? Sometimes I get sooo scared! I’ll wake… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Everyone experiences the feelings of sadness and loneliness. We might rue our lack of companionship, but some people present a desperate need… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“It's the place built out of Man's ceaseless failure to overcome himself. Out of Man's endless war against himself we build our… — Nelson Algren Copy Share Image
“From his earliest years Cincinnatus, by some strange and happy chance comprehending his danger, carefully managed to conceal a certain peculiarity. He… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
No human pursuit achieves dignity unless it can be called work, and when you can experience a physical loneliness for the tools… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
“Jason knew his life would never be the same again. British intelligence now had an ace up their sleeve, and Jason had… — Mark A. Cooper Copy Share Image
“alone, lonely, and loneliness are three of the most powerful words in the English language... Those words say that we are human;… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
We live a pleasant life shopping at the Food Shoppe . . . taking the kids to the Weinery-Beanery, . . .… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
“Teddy once told me that it's natural that we feel alone, and that's because our hearts are different from others and we… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
“I didn't let her go. She went. It's not my fault. She did it. She could undo it. This is feeling so… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
I'm an extremely introverted and isolated writer, but I was starting to feel exhausted and as if my writing was becoming redundant.… — Sabrina Claudio Copy Share Image
you were already more beautiful than anything I dared to dream. In our years apart, my imaginings did their best to improve… — William Goldman Copy Share Image
“Needless to say, I had been alone on other occasions during the year. Needless to say, my girlfriend was only two hours… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“Looking at her, thinking of her transported him, which struck him as vile because now it was hard for him not to… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
“The boat has become supreme isolation, chosen isolation, holding myself apart from the world, which I only dimly understand anyway. I can… — Nick Flynn Copy Share Image
The gay life is filled with as much cruelty and loneliness as the heterosexual life... I search into my dreams or desires… — Arthur Tress Copy Share Image
“I don’t think that loneliness is necessarily a bad or unconstructive condition. My own skill at jamming time may actually be dependent… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
The most loneliest feeling is when one finally has found after all one has been through.. Found some surrounding of company. Friends,… — Alexander Fennis Copy Share Image
As for fame, fame felt like nothing. Fame was not a sensation like love or hunger or loneliness, welling from within and… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“Pale winter sun Is beatin' the ground Why'm I throwin' away The best thing that I've found My young heart's in tatters… — David gray Copy Share Image
The impulse to perfection cannot exist where the definition of perfection is the arbitrary decision of authority. That which is born in… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“And tonight I'm feelin like an astronaut, sending sos from this tiny box,and i lost the signal when i lifted off, now… — Simple Plan Copy Share Image
And we'd look at each other the way you do when you see someone on the street you think you recognize, but… — Michele Jaffe Copy Share Image
“What was it - this implacable remoteness, this inability to surrender herself to the warmth and comradely feelings of others? Could being… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
