Confronted by too much emptiness ... the brain invents. Loneliness creates company as thirst creates water. How many sailors have been wrecked… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Lately Mirabelle had reflected wistfully if people even noticed her – a smartly dressed woman who came and went along the Promenade,… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“But even thinking that brought on an incredible isolation, a suspicion she'd always had, she didn't belong anywhere, she was going to… — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
“Nothing is everything. In order to grow strong, you must first sink your roots deep into nothingness. Learn to face your loneliest… — Pinchas Perry Copy Share Image
The definition of the word nerd has changed. It's now any attractive person with a hobby. The loneliness component is no longer… — Gary Gulman Copy Share Image
I believe that dialogue is the key to breaking through our tendency to separate and isolate. Dialogue changes isolation and loneliness into… — Vinessa Shaw Copy Share Image
Keep in mind that to avoid loneliness, many people need both a social circle and an intimate attachment. Having just one of… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
I am learning to see loneliness as a seed that, when planted deep enough, can grow into writing that goes back out… — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
“A woman's voice answered, "Hello?" Walter cried back at her, "Hello, oh Lord, hello!" "This is a recording," recited the woman's voice.… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Same for loneliness: you let go, let the tears flow, feel it completely--but eventually be able to say, " All right, that… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
“Through all this ordeal his root horror had been isolation, and there are no words to express the abyss between isolation and… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Everyone says love hurts ,but that is not true. loneliness hurts. rejection hurts, losing someone hurts, envy hurts , everyone get these… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“There are times when you don't belong and you think you're going to kill yourself. Once I went to a hotel. Later… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
I think growing up on a farm in a certain amount of isolation, with not a lot of friends nearby, makes you… — Kristen Schaal Copy Share Image
And I never thought this life was possible,You're the yellow bird that I've been waiting for. In polaroids you were dressed in… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
“...alone in this city, alone on this sea. The days were strewn about him, he was a drunkard of days. He had… — James Salter Copy Share Image
Yet it is in this loneliness that the deepest activities begin. It is here that you discover act without motion, labor that… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Lonely trees are not lonely; they have their eternal companies: Songs of the birds; shadows of the clouds; lights of the Moon;… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Religion and nationalism, as well as any custom and any belief however absurd and degrading, if it only connects the individual with… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“Loneliness watches and sights, then climbs into my bed and pulls the covers over... himself, fully dressed, shoes and all. He’s going… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
You can use your time to build bridges or walls.The latter is not only unChristlike, it limits impact & creates loneliness. — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
Everything you love will be swallowed by insecurity or selfishness. Your loneliness is consuming you. It hurts less than being left behind. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What a lonely species we are, searching for signals of life from other galaxies, adopting companion animals, visiting parks and zoos to… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
There is in the world only the choice between loneliness and vulgarity. All young people should be taught now to put up… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“When you're young, you think it's going to be solved by love. But it never is. Being close-as close as you can… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
I discovered that it was a lonely world being a solo artist. Then I started working with another solo artist, Rod Stewart,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I want to know what you're thinking, you want to know what I'm thinking. But we're alone. In our own minds. We're… — Wayne Coyne Copy Share Image
Brightness9933 said lonely way is a kind of way where human never know who care of it or notthe people who leave… — Zoya Khan Copy Share Image
“We are graced, and we are together, and the twoliness is trumping the loneliness and the doubt and the fear. We are… — Rachel Cohn David Levithan Copy Share Image
“There’s a loneliness that only exists in one’s mind. The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The only place I've felt was really my home is my cabin up north. There's something in the water there that connects… — Jessica Lange Copy Share Image
It's hard knowing when it's time to move on. The idea alone is one of the most scary things in the world...… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I thought about loneliness. How its not something you catch and mostly we choose it. How a trouble shared is a trouble… — Vikki Wakefield Copy Share Image
“In order to begin to understand human loneliness, one requires a profound insight into two emotions: loneliness and belonging.” — Ben Mijuskovic Copy Share Image
But the battles against loneliness that I fought when I was 16 are very different from those I fought when I was… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
Often, feelings of sadness, uneasiness, and loneliness are vague and unattached to specific events. This makes it more challenging to find ways… — G. Alan Marlatt Copy Share Image
When we finished the kiss she said laughing, I can taste your loneliness - it tastes like vinegar. That annoyed me. Everyone… — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
We are given over to absolute solitude. No one can speak with us and no one can speak for us; we must… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
The more isolated a person is, the more destructive will be the power of sin over him, and the more deeply he… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“If he'd learned one thing while he'd been away, it was that loneliness is the most taboo subject in the world. Forget… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
