For a second, two seconds, they had exchanged an equivocal glance, and that was the end of the story. But even that… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in… — Hunter S Thompson Copy Share Image
Nothing impresses the mind with a deeper feeling of loneliness than to tread the silent and deserted scene of former throng and… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Loneliness is the price we have to pay for being born in this modern age, so full of freedom, independence, and our… — Soseki Natsume Copy Share Image
“Loneliness pressed down on Ye like a giant hand, and she felt herself being crushed; compressed until she was so small that… — Liu Cixin Copy Share Image
“This he thinks is the secret to New York City’s vast productivity: everyone works all the time to avoid facing their loneliness.” — Chris Pavone Copy Share Image
Now I know what loneliness is, I think. Momentary loneliness, anyway. It comes from a vague core of the self - -… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Life is something where things are unpredictable, people are weird, relations are strange, expectations are hurt smiles are fake, still one keeps… — Tamjeed Copy Share Image
There are several factors in modern society that contribute to loneliness. One is that we are more mobile than we have been… — Vivek Murthy Copy Share Image
Every day, people serve their neighbors and our nation in many different ways, from helping a child learn and easing the loneliness… — John McCain Copy Share Image
One of the worst feelings in the world is loneliness. Sitting in the dark by yourself in the wee hours of the… — Patience Copy Share Image
As if to build a fence around the fatal emptiness inside her, she had to create a sunny person that she became.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Home. the word always had air quotes around it in her mind. She'd done what she could to make her flat cozy,… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
“The loneliness she felt before Frank walked her home from Wang's cleaners began to dissolve and in its place a shiver of… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
On a societal level, what happens to community when people don't have time to gather or connect, in person, not just over… — Katrina Onstad Copy Share Image
Further in Summer than the Birds Pathetic from the Grass A minor Nation celebrates Its unobtrusive Mass. No Ordinance be seen So… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
Oh! death will find me, long before I tire Of watching for you; and swing me suddenly Into the shade and loneliness… — Rupert Brooke Copy Share Image
“I am a lonely man,' Sensei said. 'And so I am glad that you come to see me. But I am also… — Natsume Sōseki Copy Share Image
I like the idea of isolation. I like the reality of it. You realize what you are... not that the knowledge is… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
Stripped of all their masquerades, the fears of men are quite identical: the fear of loneliness, rejection, inferiority, unmanageable anger, illness and… — Joshua L. Liebman Copy Share Image
I LOVED YOU because I Love You. No other definition to that. I chose to be with you cause I wanted to.… — Dan Mike Cañada Copy Share Image
When you walk into a room, and you're the only one of something - the only woman or the only African American… — Stacy Brown-Philpot Copy Share Image
“Just like you mistook lust for love, you have mistaken with being alone for loneliness. So I'm fine. Thanks for asking.” — pleasefindthis Copy Share Image
“I've been clinging to this world like a discarded shell of an insect stuck to a branch, about to be blown off… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Loneliness is not about what happens when you are alone, but what happens when you are with others. It is about how… — Kim Fay Copy Share Image
“There's not one good thought in that place. There's nothing but waste and want. I can feel his selfish cravings and an… — Steve V. Cypert Copy Share Image
To be lonely is to feel unwanted and unloved, and therefor unloveable. Loneliness is a taste of death. No wonder some people… — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
The best of community does give one a deep sense of belonging and well-being; and in that sense community takes away loneliness. — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Some nights, one wants to tell beloveds everything that's been waiting to be said. Some nights, a man needs flesh and blood… — Janet Morris Copy Share Image
“The Sun is never alone as the light remains with him always. Even when he goes down sinking...sinking, the light drowns with… — Munia Khan Copy Share Image
“When someone genuinely laughs with you, it’s proof that you share a certain internal space. And that’s not so lonely after all.” — Gina Barreca Copy Share Image
“For the first time in her life, she realized that loneliness was not a lack of company but of meaning—a lack of… — Lindsay Jayne Ashford Copy Share Image
The truly solitary being is not the man who is abandoned by men, but the man who suffers in their midst, who… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
The writer has a grudge against society, which he documents with accounts of unsatisfying sex, unrealized ambition, unmitigated loneliness, and a sense… — Renata Adler Copy Share Image
I don't surround myself with anybody, really. I have friends, but I'm kind of an isolationist now. I kind of work on… — Exene Cervenka Copy Share Image
When the chips are down, you are alone, and loneliness can be terrifying. Fortunately, I've always had a chum I could call.… — Audrey Hepburn Copy Share Image
“. . . each feeling was hitched to its opposite, the way centripetal and centrifugal forces keep our universe from collapsing as… — Miranda Weiss Copy Share Image
Readers and writers are united in their need for solitude, in their pursuit of substance in a time of ever-increasing evanescence: in… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“Because loneliness can kill you. And even if it doesn’t kill you physically—which it certainly can, disease of the psyche often leads… — J.T. Geissinger Copy Share Image
A lone walker is both present and detached, more than an audience but less than a participant. Walking assuages or legitimizes this… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
