...savoring the sense of loneliness and freedom that comes…

“Her body moved with the frankness that comes from solitary habits. But solitude is only a human presumption. Every quiet step is thunder to…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“I lay there with my mind running amuck, on the brink of madness. And somehow, gradually, early Sunday morning, I became calm. I can't…

— John Marsden

“I walked for an hour and then returned by a different route to wait out the weekend. It was one of those empty interludes…

— Paul Theroux

“Because we feel ourselves to be separate from the world in which we live, we have also grown to feel quite alone in this…

— Joseph P. Kauffman

There is a huge sense of loneliness as people leave villages and move to cities. It's hard to find that human connection as you…

— Mohsin Hamid

We are all so afraid, we are all so alone, we all so need from the outside the assurance of our own worthiness to…

— Ford Madox Ford

My sense of loneliness was not particularly great until I reached sixty. From that time on, I would have given an ex-king's ransom if…

— Frank Crowninshield

There's a pervading sense of loneliness I've had since the day I was born. Maybe a lot of other people feel the same way,…

— Thom Yorke

The Lord is near! You're not alone. You may feel alone. You may think you're alone. But there's never a moment in which you…

— Max Lucado

“And for Narnie, hours without them went by, and then days, and then weeks. And in between those seconds and minutes and hours and…

— Melina Marchetta

We need to bridge our sense of loneliness and disconnection with a sense of community and continuity even if we must manufacture it from…

— Julia Cameron

Here had lived someone else who knew that the only thing waiting at home was a sense of loneliness. Sometimes it is comforting. Most…

— Jim Butcher

“The forest is quiet but I can still hear the sound of trickling water and the trees whispering to each other in the middle…

— Bhuwan Thapaliya

For me it is essential to understand that everyone is alone. Not in the sense of loneliness, but rather in the sense that no…

— Rineke Dijkstra

“Hell is only loneliness, a place without play for the soul, a place without God. How could there be God in loneliness when God…

— Hilary Thayer Hamann