...We leave our homeland, our property and our friends. We give up the familiar ground that supports our ego, admit the helplessness… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
“I returned from the village. The house seemed unbearably dull. But I bore it. "There is no escape from loneliness and separation…"… — R.K. Narayan Copy Share Image
“She has that voraciousness about children. She swoops in on them. Even I, in public was a beloved child. She'd parade me… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
Every one of Joel's important songs--including the happy ones--are ultimately about loneliness. And it's not 'clever lonely' (like Morrissey) or 'interesting lonely'… — Chuck Klosterman 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
There is a core of loneliness. It's partly existential. Secondly, I was raised a loner. My parents were not there. My father… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
“As fi vrut sa pastrez doar creierul primitiv, sa ma topesc de dragoste si sa ma invinetesc de ura, sa salivez, sa… — Mircea Cărtărescu Copy Share Image
In the country, I stopped being a person who, in the words of Sylvia Boorstein, startles easily. I grew calmer, but beneath… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
“There I sat, probably looking so dreadful that nothing had the courage to stand by me; not even the candle, which I… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“All of us are lonely at some point or another, no matter how many people surround us. And then, we meet someone… — Helene Wecker Copy Share Image
“No, it really isn't, but trust me, getting divorced and having to start over is the least in life that isn't fair.… — Jay Crownover Copy Share Image
The mind is sharper and keener in seclusion and uninterrupted solitude. Originality thrives in seclusion free of outside influences beating upon us… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
As an artist, the most important feeling is loneliness. So when I say artists need to isolate themselves from society this is… — Zhang Xiaogang Copy Share Image
It's almost unbearable, isn't it¦ the pain of being all alone. I know that feeling, I've been there, in that dark and… — Naruto Uzumaki Copy Share Image
Maybe I know somewhere deep in my soul That love never lasts And we've got to find other ways To make it… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
It is much better that u state ur intention when u approach me, if u want friends- am fine with that bt… — AIRA Copy Share Image
“From midnight to 4: 00 AM is the loneliest time in the world. Because for those of us too sad to sleep,… — Lone Alaskan Gypsy Copy Share Image
Market moralities and mentalities-- fueled by economic imperatives to make a profit at nearly any cost-- yield unprecedented levels of loneliness, isolation,… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
“At the beginning of the twenty-first century, to feel alone or want to be alone is deeply unfashionable: to admit to feeling… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
“Community, a place of healing and growth . . . When people enter community, especially from a place of loneliness in a… — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
“A writer out of loneliness is trying to communicate like a distant star sending signals. He isn't telling, or teaching, or ordering.… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I like dark music and I want to wear those goth clothes in school. And I suddenly discovered this whole world of… — Diane Birch Copy Share Image
“One by one they are being picked off around him: in his small circle of colleagues the ratio slowly grows top-heavy, more… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
“The half-moon westers low, my love, And the wind brings up the rain; And wide apart lie we, my love, And seas… — A.E. Housman Copy Share Image
“I’m broken. We’re all broken and right now we’re all isolated within that brokenness. The cure for the loneliness is connection—connection with… — L.M. Browning Copy Share Image
Corrigan told me once that Christ was quite easy to understand. He went where He was supposed to go. He stayed where… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
If you are destined to become a writer, you can't help it. If you can help it, you aren't destined to become… — Donald Harington Copy Share Image
You can do beautiful things with your friends; you can do beautiful things when you are all alone! In togetherness, listen to… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Some minds corrode and grow inactive under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irritable; but it is the nature… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
“Because it hardly ends with falling in love. Just the opposite. I don't need to tell you, Your Honor, I sense that… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
“Begin. . . where you are, NOT where you want to be. Begin stuck in the doldrums of your false story--if that… — Florence Falk Copy Share Image
I suppose I'd had, by the standards of that pre-permissive time, a good deal of sex for my age. Girls, or a… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“A rock, I thought crazily. He'll pick up a rock. He'll break open my skull, my brain leaking onto the sand. He'll… — Emma Cline Copy Share Image
“When I look back at myself at age twenty, what I remember most is being alone and lonely. I had no girlfriend… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Silence comes in two varieties: One that nourishes and comforts; another that chokes, smothers, and isolates. Solitary confinement is the worst kind… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
