To be poor does not mean you lack the means to extend charity to another. You may lack money or food, but… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
Readers and writers are united in their need for solitude, in their pursuit of substance in a time of ever-increasing evanescence: in… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“. . . each feeling was hitched to its opposite, the way centripetal and centrifugal forces keep our universe from collapsing as… — Miranda Weiss Copy Share Image
Why Is It That when I Am Around People I Feel So Alone...Yet When I Am Truly All By Myself I Have… — Chardonnay Tyson Copy Share Image
A lone walker is both present and detached, more than an audience but less than a participant. Walking assuages or legitimizes this… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“Because loneliness can kill you. And even if it doesn’t kill you physically—which it certainly can, disease of the psyche often leads… — J.T. Geissinger Copy Share Image
Don't be quick to judge, sometimes it pays to read between the lines. That's where the hurt, pain, broken hearts, loneliness and… — Steve Bertie Copy Share Image
“Frankie," she said softly, "do you know what my idea of heaven is? A place where the windows are always clean, and… — Helen Hudson Copy Share Image
“I was almost a wife but lost the man. I was almost recognisable as a friend. And then I wasn't. The nights… — Emma Cline Copy Share Image
“Dimple didn’t want to admit how much what he was saying resonated with her. Loneliness. That’s what he was describing. And she’d… — Sandhya Menon Copy Share Image
Unlike many other illnesses, what I find profoundly empowering about addressing loneliness is that the ultimate solution to loneliness lies in each… — Vivek Murthy Copy Share Image
And it came to me then. That we were wonderful traveling companions but in the end no more than lonely lumps of… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“Graff had isolated Ender to make him struggle. To make him prove, not that he was competent, but that he was far… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“In this passionately social world, loneliness dogged the spirit. People were constantly “getting together,” but they never really got there. Everyone was… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
Nights are sometimes the worst part of a day! You lay awake on your bed staring at the ceiling and relive each… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It is one of life's great ironies that most people's only connection to success is their attachment to the pain of not… — Stephen Smoke Copy Share Image
“When someone genuinely laughs with you, it’s proof that you share a certain internal space. And that’s not so lonely after all.” — Gina Barreca Copy Share Image
“For the first time in her life, she realized that loneliness was not a lack of company but of meaning—a lack of… — Lindsay Jayne Ashford Copy Share Image
“The Sun is never alone as the light remains with him always. Even when he goes down sinking...sinking, the light drowns with… — Munia Khan Copy Share Image
Some nights, one wants to tell beloveds everything that's been waiting to be said. Some nights, a man needs flesh and blood… — Janet Morris Copy Share Image
The best of community does give one a deep sense of belonging and well-being; and in that sense community takes away loneliness. — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
To be lonely is to feel unwanted and unloved, and therefor unloveable. Loneliness is a taste of death. No wonder some people… — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
“There's not one good thought in that place. There's nothing but waste and want. I can feel his selfish cravings and an… — Steve V. Cypert Copy Share Image
The writer has a grudge against society, which he documents with accounts of unsatisfying sex, unrealized ambition, unmitigated loneliness, and a sense… — Renata Adler Copy Share Image
The truly solitary being is not the man who is abandoned by men, but the man who suffers in their midst, who… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
I don't surround myself with anybody, really. I have friends, but I'm kind of an isolationist now. I kind of work on… — Exene Cervenka Copy Share Image
When the chips are down, you are alone, and loneliness can be terrifying. Fortunately, I've always had a chum I could call.… — Audrey Hepburn Copy Share Image
I've never been without a dog. I've made trips across the country with a dog. I've been in that angst of loneliness,… — William Shatner Copy Share Image
If there's anything to be said in a broad way about different audiences it's that I live in a major city, and… — Simon Amstell Copy Share Image
“There is a difference in the lone, who are free to walk as fast and far as they like, and the lonely,… — Brian S Woods Copy Share Image
I had become, with the approach of night, once more aware of loneliness and time - those two companions without whom no… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I feel that I could stand in the middle of the square and scream and thrash about like a wildling, and… — Kerrigan Byrne Copy Share Image
“It’s not your fault that your brain is reduced to the size of one neuron and that it itself is being annihilated… — Danka V Copy Share Image
I'm always writing. It's kind of a curse: You never stop. But I need isolation to write. So the real meat of… — Taylor Momsen Copy Share Image
It's funny, because my last record was a lot about isolation and people living in separate worlds that other people can't even… — Aimee Mann Copy Share Image
“Eventually, I’ll grow sick and perish. Die on the floor, a young girl—who even when in the presence of company, still feels… — RJ Gonzales Copy Share Image
I just want somebody, who kisses me in the rain, holds me tight when I'm sad, and wraps their arms around me… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I enjoy controlled loneliness. I like wandering around the city alone. I’m not afraid of coming back to an empty flat and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I wished a companion to lie near me in the starlight, silent and not moving, but ever within touch. For there is… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
