“Ultimately, loneliness is not the experience of lacking but the experience of living. It is part and parcel of the human condition,… — Neel Burton Copy Share Image
“What a fool she was ever to have imagined that there might be some place in the world where she could sink… — François Mauriac Copy Share Image
“Though the brain says all is well, the soul is lost, confused, doesn’t know why life is being unfair to it. But… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“Maybe the point of life is to teach us that we aren’t always going to be our past mistakes. Maybe the point… — Brittainy C. Cherry Copy Share Image
“A gust of cool wind moved in the curtains and made shadows dance and play for her on the walls of the… — Daniel Silva Copy Share Image
No one can help us to achieve the intimate isolation by which we find our secret worlds, so mysterious, rich and full.… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
That the zeal for God's honor is also a dangerous passion, that the Christian must bring with him the courage to swim… — Karl Barth Copy Share Image
“The place was a truck stop town. Large 18 wheelers lined the sidewalks and cafes. Giant diesel motors roaring their exhaust into… — Jaime Allison Parker Copy Share Image
Lonely people have enthusiasms which cannot always be explained. When something strikes them as funny, the intensity and length of their laughter… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
“It was somehow clear, even then, that the monster had been lonely. The folds above its eye made the old face look… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
“I looked deeply into the fire, and the timeless, eternal dance of colors I saw there was so beautiful, I wanted to… — Cate Tiernan Copy Share Image
“Until then I had always thought of loneliness as something negative—an absence of company, and, of course, something temporary... That day I… — John Wyndham Copy Share Image
Sittin' here resting my bones, this loneliness won't leave me alone. Two thousand miles I roam, just to make this dock my… — Otis Redding Copy Share Image
In television, there's this weird sense of isolation from your audience; you kind of get this feeling that you write the show… — Ronald D. Moore Copy Share Image
I think growing up on a farm in a certain amount of isolation, with not a lot of friends nearby, makes you… — Kristen Schaal Copy Share Image
“There are times when you don't belong and you think you're going to kill yourself. Once I went to a hotel. Later… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
Everyone says love hurts ,but that is not true. loneliness hurts. rejection hurts, losing someone hurts, envy hurts , everyone get these… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Through all this ordeal his root horror had been isolation, and there are no words to express the abyss between isolation and… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Same for loneliness: you let go, let the tears flow, feel it completely--but eventually be able to say, " All right, that… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
“A woman's voice answered, "Hello?" Walter cried back at her, "Hello, oh Lord, hello!" "This is a recording," recited the woman's voice.… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Perhaps we believe that anything is better than that which we all fear the most. Loneliness. Abandonment. But once you accept that… — Linda Olsson Copy Share Image
“As soon as whatever provisional well of confidence dries up, I will feel like a frightened motherless child. And I will—what? Lessee,… — Maryse Holder Copy Share Image
“...alone in this city, alone on this sea. The days were strewn about him, he was a drunkard of days. He had… — James Salter Copy Share Image
And I never thought this life was possible,You're the yellow bird that I've been waiting for. In polaroids you were dressed in… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
“Home. the word always had air quotes around it in her mind. She'd done what she could to make her flat cozy,… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
As if to build a fence around the fatal emptiness inside her, she had to create a sunny person that she became.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The loneliness she felt before Frank walked her home from Wang's cleaners began to dissolve and in its place a shiver of… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Further in Summer than the Birds Pathetic from the Grass A minor Nation celebrates Its unobtrusive Mass. No Ordinance be seen So… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
On a societal level, what happens to community when people don't have time to gather or connect, in person, not just over… — Katrina Onstad Copy Share Image
Same hurt, same lies. No one knows what I truly feel inside. I just want to be done. I'm alone and in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“What drives us to despair is not the immensity of our unsatisfied desires, but the moment when our fledgling passion discovers its… — Raoul Vaneigem Copy Share Image
Reading Dorothy B. Hughes's novel 'In a Lonely Place' for the first time is like finding the long-lost final piece to an… — Megan Abbott Copy Share Image
You can have everything in the world and still be the loneliest man. And that is the most bitter type of loneliness,… — Freddie Mercury Copy Share Image
One of the worst feelings in the world is loneliness. Sitting in the dark by yourself in the wee hours of the… — Patience Copy Share Image
Every day, people serve their neighbors and our nation in many different ways, from helping a child learn and easing the loneliness… — John McCain Copy Share Image
There are several factors in modern society that contribute to loneliness. One is that we are more mobile than we have been… — Vivek Murthy Copy Share Image
My great grandfather just passed away, and my great grandmother is about to. I usually am fine with keeping myself together, my… — Guardian Copy Share Image
“In the beginning, God created the earth, and he looked upon it in His cosmic loneliness. And God said, "Let Us make… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place. We stay there even though we go away and there are… — Pascal Mercier Copy Share Image
“Things must be done, life must go on. Life would go on, even if every breath she took hurt, even if her… — Kristen Callihan Copy Share Image
