No shame in saying that I felt a loneliness drifting through me. Funny how it was, everyone perched in their own little… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
When even the most strictly logical mind looks round and investigates the phenomena attending its own existence, perhaps the first fact to… — Richard Jefferies Copy Share Image
“...it begins with isolation - demons always inhabit desolate places...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“That none discussed their doubts, that they assumed everyone else was just having a grand time of it and felt at ease… — Elizabeth Winder Copy Share Image
When you're creating you have to descend to depths. You've just got to go there - to the boredom, the banality, the… — Errollyn Wallen Copy Share Image
“I didn't like anything. Maybe I was afraid. That was it - I was afraid. I wanted to sit alone in a… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
What is the emotion of an empty inbox? An unliked Post? An ignored dating app message? I think there's a great loneliness… — Alexander Weinstein Copy Share Image
Face to face, just you and me, with no rules. Just like you, I get lonely too. — Drake Copy Share Image
“She wondered whether the books she loved consoled her precisely because they were the manifestations of her own isolation.” — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
“I had grazed along the surface of her actions and made deep judgments. Rejecting someone because you couldn't understand their love, that… — Arthur Nersesian Copy Share Image
Sorrow has a name, and its name is loneliness. Sorrow has a shape, and its shape is absence. Sorrow is a sickness… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
Loneliness comes over us sometimes as a sudden tide. It is one of the terms of our humanness, and, in a sense,… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
Solitude is fine when you are at peace with yourself and have something definite to do. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I inhabited a territory of loneliness which resembles the place where the dying spend their time before death, and from where those… — Janet Frame Copy Share Image
One's need for loneliness is not satisfied if one sits at a table alone. There must be empty chairs as well. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
“It's sad to fall asleep. It separates people. Even when you're sleeping together, you're all alone.” — J.L. Merrow Copy Share Image
That's the day's business. Thinking. Thinking and isolation, because it doesn't matter if you pass the time of day with someone or… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“do not heal in isolation. Connecting with others is how we develop compassion for others and for ourselves.” — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
