“Even now it comes as a shock if by chance I notice in the street a face resembling someone I know however… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
The numbing mind-ream of knowing you're alone not because people won't accept you but because you find so little worth accepting. An… — Jhonen Vasquez Copy Share Image
“Durum semolina, golden wheat wafting in Italian fields. Can you imagine how astonished the Italians would be if they knew that what… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
If I hazard a guess as to the most endemic, prevalent anxiety among human beings-including fear of death, abandonment, loneliness-nothing is more… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
“Thinking about sadness and loneliness, and what it means to be sad, how to live with it, walk through it and grow… — Riitta Klint Copy Share Image
All the lonely people, where do they all come from? / All the lonely people, where do they all belong? — The Beatles Copy Share Image
“From long experience she knew that she wore her loneliness like armor. Very few people ever recognized it for what it was.… — Nevada Barr Copy Share Image
Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he… — Janet Malcolm Copy Share Image
We will come to understand the part a difficult circumstance has played in our lives. Hindsight makes so much clear. The broken… — Karan Casey Copy Share Image
Being the “best you can be” is really only possible when you are deeply connected to another. Splendid isolation is for planets,… — Sue Johnson Copy Share Image
“His act was rather that of a harmless lunatic than an enemy. We were not so new to the country as not… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Country [China] needs to continue opening up and keep connecting. It needs to realize that the world has become one. The old… — Zhang Xin Copy Share Image
“Nothing fortified me, and simple loneliness all but destroyed me, yet I felt swamped by the belief that life must mean something-… — Morrissey Copy Share Image
At times, the biggest challenge in embracing simplicity will be the vague feeling of isolation that comes with it, since private sacrifice… — Rolf Potts Copy Share Image
“That’s my whole trouble. I don’t seem capable of living for the moment. It’s as if the future threw back a shadow—a… — Lynne Reid Banks Copy Share Image
“I love this constant motion between ' Solitude' and ' Loneliness '. On one end it's the desire and achievement of being… — Anubhav Mishra Copy Share Image
Please make me empty, if I'm empty then I can receive, if I can receive it means it comes from somewhere outside… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
“the place of peace, the relief from the emotion, the fear, the loneliness. Sleep was what they all craved at the end… — Angela Marsons Copy Share Image
“There are some places in life where you can only go alone. Embrace the beauty of your solo journey.” — Mandy Hale Copy Share Image
“I hope somebody cares because I sure don't. I sure don't. Not anymore. I'm ashamed to go around my family. I'm too… — Mary B. Morrison Copy Share Image
We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I wanted to know what had created the chasm in his spirit. Maybe it was a broken heart. Or maybe it had… — Tiffanie DeBartolo Copy Share Image
“How easily such a thing can become a mania, how the most normal and sensible of women once this passion to be… — Kathryn Hurn Copy Share Image
Even though loneliness affects so many of us, it has gotten scant research attention compared to related conditions like depression or anxiety. — Robin Marantz Henig Copy Share Image
Even the wisest of mankind cannot live by reason alone; pure arrogant reason, denying the claims of prejudice (which commonly are also… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
It is in lonely solitude that God delivers His best thoughts, and the mind needs to be still and quiet to receive… — Charles R. Swindoll Copy Share Image
A writer soon discovers he has no single identity but lives the lives of all the people he creates and his weathers… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
I think that's why a lot of people are very lonely and get ill when they're older, because I think loneliness and… — June Brown Copy Share Image
Most people think that they want spacious homes, but they dont realize how the emptiness of a large room just amplifies the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As prevalent as loneliness is, many people don't recognize that people that they know may very well be suffering from loneliness. It's… — Vivek Murthy Copy Share Image
“Only the survivors of a death are truly left alone. The connections that made up their life--both the deep connections and the… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image