Why couldn't she stop talking? Did all lonely people have…

“Only the thirsty knows the real taste of water; only the lonely knows the real weight of emptiness!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

My first job was in a nursing home - a terrible place in retrospect. It was in an old house, and the residents were…

— Kim Edwards

“We are accustomed to think of ourselves as a great democratic body, linked by common ties of blood and language, united indissolubly by all…

— Henry Miller

It's an industry of lonely people in a crowd, Bill Margold was saying. 'They're scared to get close to each other. You're far better…

— Louis Theroux

“There was magic. Some kind of alchemy. I don't remember the moment you transformed from a prop into a main character. No, that's not…

— Vironika Tugaleva

SOLIDAO, LONELINESS. What is it that we call loneliness. It can't simply be the absence of others, you can be alone and not lonely,…

— Pascal Mercier

Lonely people have enthusiasms which cannot always be explained. When something strikes them as funny, the intensity and length of their laughter mirrors the…

— Mark Helprin

“All human loneliness can be filtered down in one way or another to the singular, tragic element of silence...”

— Nettie Magnan

“How much of it was real. How much of it was just a dream. Is it possible that all of it was just a…

— Stevan V. Nikolic

“I prefer to be on the side of losers, the misunderstood or lonely people rather than writing about the strong and powerful.”

— Núria Añó

“Lonely people were not faking their symptoms. Their own bodies were reacting to loneliness at a cellular level, trying to nudge them to make…

— Barbara Bradley Hagerty

“Something in his voice stopped her from asking any more questions and he went on: 'So you see, Octavia, we need you and you…

— Betty Neels

I have become convinced that the more wealth a country accumulates, the more isolated and lonely its people become. The loneliest are usually the…

— Wess Stafford

I know the night is not the same as the day: that all things are different, that the things of the night cannot be…

— Ernest Hemingway

The people of your culture cling with fanatical tenacity to the specialness of man. They want desperately to perceive a vast gulf between man…

— Daniel Quinn