“I’m here. I love you. I don’t care if you need to stay up crying all night long, I will stay with… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My solo travels in Paris have brought many perfect hours of being alone but not a moment of loneliness. People who depend… — Andrew O'Hagan Copy Share Image
Nothing more makes me cry more than knowing all I did was try. But all you said was goodbye and then left… — Andrew Duran Copy Share Image
“I don't know what I'm doing in Santa Teresa," Amalfitano said to himself after he'd been living in the city for a… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
The Loneliness One dare not sound -- And would as soon surmise AS in its Grave go plumbing To ascertain the size… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
“I walked for an hour and then returned by a different route to wait out the weekend. It was one of those… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
Isolation, not solitude, breaks men. If I could not find the means to deal with the isolation, then my options were severely… — Shawn Thompson Copy Share Image
We are largely the playthings of our fears. To one, fear of the dark; to another, of physical pain; to a third,… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
But we are alone, darling child, terribly, isolated each from the other; so fierce is the world's ridicule we cannot speak or… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
“I lead a double life. I'm John Wayne Gacy. I present myself in potentially awkward social situations as a laughing, colorful clown… — Anne Clendening Copy Share Image
“As I saw myself moving ever farther toward the social margin, nothing healed me of a sore and angry heart like a… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
People often expect the other person to respond first in a positive way, instead of taking the initiative to create that possibility.… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Often nothing keeps the pupil on the move but his faith in his teacher, whose mastery is now beginning to dawn on… — Eugen Herrigel Copy Share Image
“ISOLATION DOES STRANGE THINGS to a person’s mind. This is true for any social creature, human or otherwise. Monkeys taken from their… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
“Because we feel ourselves to be separate from the world in which we live, we have also grown to feel quite alone… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
When we sat down to eat I took inventory of the people in the room, and the remnants of my good mood… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
Maybe the problem with the world is, that people are too quick to judge. And out of desperation, the loneliness creeps in… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
“But it's funny how even after all these years you find yourself wondering just how well you know anyone. Hell, we've all… — Greg F. Gifune Copy Share Image
I have heard of a man lost in the woods and dying of famine and exhaustion at the foot of a tree,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
All sound has died out, and the cold, dark night fills the room. Unable to go to sleep, holding on to the… — Boys Be Copy Share Image
“The strange fortune of my lynx brought him to live in an artificial environment, a human community utterly foreign to him. His… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Solitude is part of my life, and I don't mind that. I like it. I love it. I don't allow loneliness to… — Sheila Hancock Copy Share Image
“i think people asked me to do things both tonight and last night but i was like 'i have plans...' i feel… — Megan Boyle Copy Share Image
A lot of people have said that the main thread in my work is loneliness or just wanting to create a world… — Laurel Nakadate Copy Share Image
Now you will feel no rain, for each of you will be shelter for the other. Now you will feel no cold,… — Ann Aguirre Copy Share Image
I remember the nights we spent just talking to each other, not wanting to go to sleep, living in the embrace of… — Francisco Garcia Copy Share Image
No one is alone in their troubles; there is always someone else thinking, rejoicing, or suffering in the same way, and that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“In my mind, I took what had just happened to my shoulder, and I put it into a box. A box with… — Sarah Gailey Copy Share Image
“So now the sky was falling. Maybe the end of the world. Maybe Jesus coming again. That suited her. White lights shot… — Mary Connealy Copy Share Image
“I don't want to lose you. I can't imagine ever feeling this strongly about anything or anybody ever again. This was unexpected,… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“Only now, as I'm typing this, have I realized the only thing I wasn't thinking of was how lonely I was. I… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
Have you never been moved by poor men's fidelity, the image of you they form in their simple minds? Why should you… — Georges Bernanos Copy Share Image
When you feel you are alone in the crowd, When you think No one can understand you, When your love is rejected… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am, I must confess, suspicious of those who denounce others for having too much sex. At what point does a healthy… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
Loneliness and solitude are two different things. When you are lonely, it is easy to delude yourself into believing that you are… — Elif Safak Copy Share Image
