“The dog upstairs won't shut up, but I can't hate him, he's up there alone all day, making noise must be the… — Danez Smith Copy Share Image
“From time to time, we all must go unto a landscape—be it inner or outer landscape—where there are no hiding places. Allowing… — L.M. Browning Copy Share Image
The telephone conversation is, by its very nature, reactive, not reflective. Immediacy is its prime virtue. ... The letter, written in absorbed… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
Valek's thoughts returned to Yelena. An icy finger of loneliness touched the emptiness inside him. She was in Sitia, where she needed… — Maria V. Snyder Copy Share Image
With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
At that moment i felt lonelier than i'd ever felt before, and that loneliness seemed to squat in my lungs and crush… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
Fiction, poetry, music...these are the places (for me) where loneliness is countenanced, stared down, transfigured, treated. — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“„I'm not afraid to show the world, how far can take you the nightmare of loneliness”.” — Alexandar Tomov Copy Share Image
“There is no loneliness more profound, in my experience, than being ignored by one's sole companion in life.” — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
“You can't isolate yourself, because that's the worst thing you can do. There's no healing if there's no movement, and isolation is… — Andrea Speed Copy Share Image
When I'm writing, I like to travel alone. If you really want to find out about a place, you need to be… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
“If you learn to really sit with loneliness and embrace it for the gift that it is…an opportunity to get to know… — Mandy Hale Copy Share Image
“I bask in that sympathy because it's nice to have somebody who cares, even if it's the wrong person for the wrong… — Nenia Campbell Copy Share Image
It cannot be doubted that theistic belief is a comfort and a solace to those who hold it, and that the loss… — William Kingdon Clifford Copy Share Image
All isolation is wrong so say the herd. And long didst thou belong to the herd. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Time passes... Memories fade... Feelings change... People leave... But hearts never forget... Whatever relation you build up in this world, the only… — Happysamsuman Copy Share Image
I believe that it is sometimes less difficult to wake up and feel that I am alone when I really am, than… — Liv Ullmann Copy Share Image
“Snacking is a common response to boredom, anxiety, anger, and, yes, loneliness.” — Liz Vaccariello Copy Share Image
“Feel the splendid isolation, the momentary step into timelessness.” — Derek B. Miller Copy Share Image
“You are not alone. You are instead lonely. There is loneliness as can exist only in the midst of numbers and numbers… — James S. Kunen Copy Share Image
The life of an athlete does have to be lonely and you have to be focused on your craft and what you… — Johnny Weir Copy Share Image
“Solitude isn’t loneliness. Solitude is when the entire serene universe seems to surround and hold you quietly.” — Victoria Erickson Copy Share Image
For both writer and reader, the novel is a lonely, physically inactive affair. Only the imagination races. — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
My characters are quite as real to me as so-called real people; which is one reason why I'm not subject to what… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
But I know too that if we ever make a world without shadow, if the chemists and scientists and psychologists succeed in… — MacDonald Harris Copy Share Image
“Our stereotyping societies force us to feel more alone. They stamp masks on us and isolate out real selves. We all live… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“Eccentrics with unseeing eyes glided through, savouring amid so much society their own particular loneliness and private sins and sorrows.” — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
Going to places where I spent incredible time of my life with you are now the places most lonely and painful without… — Sushan Sharma Copy Share Image
Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
It is just dawn, daylight: that gray and lonely suspension filled with the peaceful and tentative waking of birds. The air, inbreathed,… — William Faulkner 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 loneliness is when you pick up and move, even if you are not originally from that place, and you have some… — Ajay Naidu Copy Share Image
Single people slip out of the dating market for many social, economic, psychological, and ideological reasons including marriage, illness, bankruptcy, job promotion,… — Linda Sunshine Copy Share Image
“The worst kind of loneliness gripped him. The kind you feel alongside another person.” — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
“My arms squeeze her extra tight. She makes my loneliness feel a little less alone.” — Marcy McKay Copy Share Image
In certain areas of my life, I actively seek out solitude. Especially for someone in my line of work, solitude is, more… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
It was a lot to carry out of a childhood--all those textured layers of thwarted dreams rumbling under the fifties patina--but a… — Anne Taylor Fleming Copy Share Image
