So he was deserted. The whole world was clamouring: Kill yourself, kill yourself, for our sakes. But why should he kill himself… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
For how smart we think we are, how facile with words, we don't have a word for this feeling, the feeling of… — Kathleen Moore Copy Share Image
Loneliness is a long, unbearable pain…There was never a place for me in the scheme of things…I had become a living fantasy… — Dennis Nilsen Copy Share Image
“Not to mention the loneliness. And at the same time, the crowdedness. The never being really alone, just to think, to rest… — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
“he writer has a grudge against society, which he documents with accounts of unsatisfying sex, unrealized ambition, unmitigated lo neliness, and a… — Renata Adler Copy Share Image
When I think of you I feel loneliness no more you make everything worth living for but sometimes you make me want… — Eli Dorsey Copy Share Image
Sometimes words may not mean much, other times they may mean the world. They say there is a time and place for… — Jasmina Siderovski Copy Share Image
Our equal and opposite needs for solitude and community constitute a great paradox. When it is torn apart, both of these life-giving… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
Always in the short story there is this sense of outlawed figures wandering about the fringes of society… As a result there… — Frank O'Connor Copy Share Image
“Loneliness is something that finds us all when we think about it and when we're by ourselves when we don't want to… — Joshua Hartzell Copy Share Image
“We have talked about Suzy and about her last days, but it's as if our lives stopped then and there. If I… — Nancy E. Turner Copy Share Image
“sunset and evening star hunching and bending sleeping and slipping virus pneumonia coughing and crying hope in the small things heaven looks… — Chila Woychik Copy Share Image
“To retreat into oneself and meet nobody for hours on end—that is what one must be able to attain. To be alone,… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“I am never alone wherever I am. The air itself supplies me with a century of love. When I breathe in, I… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
Too many dogs continue to be abused and abandond - one is too many - and people continue to kill people for… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Memories have two qualities - pain and pleasure, if you are recalling it alone then they might give you the feeling of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“And because no one answered or cared and a conversation went on without her she felt profoundly lonely, suspecting once more for… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I think the loneliness inside of me is going to explode through my skin and sometimes I’m not sure if crying… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“But he also knew that, as much as he wanted to aid and console the soldier, he wanted to be alone in… — Colm Tóibín Copy Share Image
“I once read that most people are afraid to live alone because to live alone means to die alone. They have visions… — Jessica Anthony Copy Share Image
“I know what it feels like, and it sucks, it really does, when you are up in the middle of the night… — Abraham M. Alghanem Copy Share Image
Isolation offered its own form of companionship: the reliable silence of her rooms, the steadfast tranquility of the evenings. The promise that… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
“This much freedom leaves you on your own. More Americans than ever before live alone, but even a family can exist in… — George Packer Copy Share Image
Fatigue dulls the pain, but awakes enticing thoughts of death. So! that is the way in which you are tempted to overcome… — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
And yet, standing behind her son, waiting for the traffic light change, she remembered how in the midst of it all there… — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share Image
“Paul Tillich - Loneliness & Solitude: "And when he had sent the multitudes away, he went up into a mountain to pray:… — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
“In the parking lot, she drove and parked in a dark area with no other cars around. She reclined her seat, and… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
Sometimes at night I suddenly become aware of all the things Im missing out on right now, and all the people who… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Betrayal is too kind a word to describe a situation in which a father says he loves his daughter but claims he… — Margaret Smith Copy Share Image
Traveling is amazing. You meet so many great, positive people. You get to see new faces all the time. I don't think… — How to Dress Well Copy Share Image
Krys Lee has written a book of unforgettable stories, each one building on the other to create a complex, moving portrait of… — Sarah Shun-lien Bynum Copy Share Image
“Loneliness is collective; it is a city. As to how to inhabit it, there are no rules and nor is there any… — Olivia Laing Copy Share Image
“I ignore people who need me and latch on to people who don't. I dive into every other world except my own… — Hannah Moskowitz Copy Share Image
“your homecoming will be my homecoming̣- my selves go with you, only i remain; a shadow phantom effigy or seeming (an almost… — E. E. Cummings Copy Share Image
And I was to find out then, as I found out so many times, over and over again, that women especially are… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
If your beliefs are stressful and you question them, you come to see that they aren't true - whereas prior to questioning,… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
The leaves are falling, falling as from way off, as though far gardens withered in the skies; they are falling with denying… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“It is lonely behind these boundaries. Some people-particularly those whom psychiatrists call schizoid-because of unpleasant, traumatizing experiences in childhood, perceive the world… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
“The second sort was waking up alone. That was characterised by an awareness that he was alone in bed, alone in life,… — Jo Nesbø Copy Share Image
“I wasn’t a lonely kid—I was good at being alone. I’d read books, play with the toy that I had, make up… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
![“Paul Tillich - Loneliness & Solitude: "And when he had sent the multitudes away, he went up into a mountain to pray: and when the evening was come, he was alone" - Matthew 14.23. 'He was there alone.' So are we. Man [humankind] is alone because he/[she] is man [human]. In some way every creature…” quote by Paul Tillich](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/137/paul-tillich-3183_inspirational_paul-tillich-loneliness-solitude-and-whe_394893.jpg)
