“And I knew too well the loneliness that clamps around one’s heart when loved ones have passed on before. To have that… — Kevin Hearne Copy Share Image
“There must be different kinds of loneliness, or at least different degrees of loneliness, but the most terrifying loneliness is not experienced… — Charles M. Schulz Copy Share Image
“Forget so-called peer-pressure. It’s more like peer-hunger. No? We enter a spiritual puberty where we snap to the fact that the great… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“He needed her so badly, to reassure himself of his own existence, that he never comprehended the desperation in her dazzling, permanent… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
There was a loneliness because kids my age had video games, tennis. They traveled. They had beautiful clothes. I was wearing my… — Riccardo Tisci Copy Share Image
In our hearts... there must abide some pity for those people who have always felt themselves to be separate from even their… — John Irving Copy Share Image
O yes, everyone gets lonely some time or other. After all, if we look closer into ourselves, shall we not admit that… — Ama Ata Aidoo Copy Share Image
Fiction is one of the few experiences where loneliness can be both confronted and relieved. Drugs, movies where stuff blows up, loud… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
When I was Surgeon General, I spent a lot of time talking to people in living rooms and town halls all across… — Vivek Murthy Copy Share Image
“I always feel myself being thrust back into loneliness when someone tells me it's cold on a hot day. It isn't good… — Yōko Tawada Copy Share Image
“Can you be alone without being lonely? Can you spend time by yourself without craving noise or company of other people? Have… — Steve Goodier Copy Share Image
Wishing to turn back the time, the moment when my lips are full of smile,,, that nobody can hurt me, even my… — Bloodyheart Copy Share Image
I have experienced loneliness at many, many points in my life and felt this profound sense of shame about it - all… — Vivek Murthy Copy Share Image
You sense my loneliness, (...) my bitterness at being shut out of life. My bitterness that I'm evil, that I don't deserve… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
It's so effortless to let my loneliness defeat me, make me mold myself to whatever would (in some way - but not… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“It was always with her now, that sadness, like one of those rare orchids you saw clinging to jungle branches on TV,… — Michael Knight Copy Share Image
There is convincing evidence that the search for solitude is not a luxury but a biological need. Just as humans posses a… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
My sense of loneliness was not particularly great until I reached sixty. From that time on, I would have given an ex-king's… — Frank Crowninshield Copy Share Image
Loneliness sucks, having a empty feeling in your heart is what makes it ache. But I guess really and truly you don't… — Justin Lee Riner Copy Share Image
Look on each day that comes as a challenge, as a test of courage. The pain will come in waves, some days… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
“The forest is quiet but I can still hear the sound of trickling water and the trees whispering to each other in… — Bhuwan Thapaliya Copy Share Image
My own study of the networked life has left me thinking about intimacy - about being with people in person, hearing their… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
“First agriculture, and then industry, changed two fundamental things about the human experience. The accumulation of personal property allowed people to make… — Sebastian Junger Copy Share Image
He spoke of human solitude, about the intrinsic loneliness of a sophisticated mind, one that is capable of reason and poetry but… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
We eat pancakes to escape loneliness, yet within moments we want nothing more than our freedom from ever having so much as… — Donald Antrim Copy Share Image
Some degree of withdrawal serves to nurture man's creative powers. The artist and the scientist bring out of the dark void, like… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
When I get lonely these days, I think: So BE lonely, Liz. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it.… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Things go backward. And then, one day, whatever it is we had, it’s gone. It won’t come back. We both know it.… — Charles Yu Copy Share Image
Any decent society must generate a feeling of community. Community offsets loneliness. It gives people a vitally necessary sense of belonging. Yet… — Alvin Toffler Copy Share Image
So, now I shall talk every night. To myself. To the moon. I shall walk, as I did tonight, jealous of my… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“How lonely I was, even when I was with him. How it felt, him not making love to me, being affectionate, making… — Kristen Ashley Copy Share Image
“I didn’t have the vaguest idea of what to do – I couldn’t keep staring at the wall forever, I told myself.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“My skin hungered for you. You were warm, and alive, and in my bed, and I wanted you so bad I could… — Julio-Alexi Genao Copy Share Image
A life without a lonely place, that is, a life without a quiet center, easily becomes destructive. When we cling to the… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
“As always when he worked with this much concentration he began to feel a sense of introverting pressure. There was no way… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“Sitting alone in the alley of dark submissive loneliness. Retrospecting on the things that were left unsaid , only if they weren't… — BinYamin Gulzar Copy Share Image
“Man was born for society. However little He may be attached to the World, He never can wholly forget it, or bear… — Matthew Gregory Lewis Copy Share Image
One ought to love society, if he wishes to enjoy solitude. It is a social nature that solitude works upon with the… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
“When I reach the end of one row, I continue straight on away from the barn and the farm and the road.… — Lisa Ann Sandell Copy Share Image
All the things that girls feel they are not when they fear that if they become, if they are, they will no… — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
