“After listening to a lot of these stories, I began to think that American loneliness is a completely different creature from anything… — Ryū Murakami Copy Share Image
“I've never been lonely. I've been in a room -- I've felt suicidal. I've been depressed. I've felt awful -- awful beyond… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“Alvin didn't cry, didn't curse, didn't holler… He was too far gone to roar on that day or even to crack. Only… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
“ Song of a Second April APRIL this year, not otherwise Than April of a year ago Is full of whispers, full… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
We are all so afraid, we are all so alone, we all so need from the outside the assurance of our own… — Ford Madox Ford Copy Share Image
“Independence is the luxury of all those people who are too confident, and busy, and popular, and attractive to be just plain… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
Everyone needs solitude, especially a person who is used to thinking about what she experiences. Solitude is very important in my work… — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
“Writing is a solitary job--that is, no one can help you with it, bu there's nothing lonely about it. I have always… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it. The way it tunnels into you allows your soul room to grow. Never expect to… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
Every wise workman takes his tools away from the work from time to time that they may be ground and sharpened; so… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is nothing more lonely than eternity. And nothing is more cozy for us than to be a human being. This indeed… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
I am alone On an empty rode I cry alone I stand yet I'm alone In my bed When I stand When… — Myothersweetangel199 Copy Share Image
“In my recollection, there have been many places and people I have been both blessed and cursed to know. Much joy and… — Wynter Wilkins Copy Share Image
All the fear in the world, and the violence that comes from the fear, and the hatred that comes from the violence,… — William Nicholson Copy Share Image
“For better or worse, she was the lady Soraya. And the lady Soraya would never dream of missing the warm bulk of… — Hilari Bell Copy Share Image
“Of course every girl wishes she could be one of those pop star babes who wave their hands in the air yelling… — Lisa O'Donnell Copy Share Image
“And the strange thing was he had never loved her more than in that moment, because at that moment she had become… — James Jones Copy Share Image
“Let us begin by turning the skeptic’s question on its head. If you could believe in God, why wouldn’t you? There is… — T.M. Luhrmann Copy Share Image
“When you’re accustomed to loneliness, you become in tune with the rhythms of yourself and your own mind—because you always have to… — Nico Lang Copy Share Image
“Freedom is the possibility of isolation. You are free if you can withdraw from people, not having to seek them out for… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“We waste so much energy trying to cover up who we are when beneath every attitude is the want to be loved,… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
“War veterans of a lost war and those who have loved and lost have something in common: both are heart-broken. But the… — Bakht Ashraf Copy Share Image
“He is convinced that the people who might mean something to him will always misjudge him and pass him by. He is… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
“My main goal is to stay alive. To keep fooling myself into hanging around. To keep getting up every day. Right now… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
I was sad to leave Europe in 1890, after my student days in Germany... But then, once back in New York, I… — Alfred Stieglitz Copy Share Image
“A city uninhabited is different. Different from what a "normal" observer, straggling in the dark - the occasional dark - would see.… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
The American appetite for loneliness impressed me, and there was something about this solitude that freed conversation. One night at a bar,… — Peter Hessler Copy Share Image
Real travel is not about the highlights with which you dazzle your friends once you're home. It's about the loneliness, the solitude,… — Tahir Shah Copy Share Image
“She was reasonable and rational, even through the tears. I hurt her. I know I hurt her. All I felt was anger.… — Matt Fraction Copy Share Image
I find myself alone in this world and I'm very sad. Everyone has abandoned me and I am truly alone. I have… — Bubbly Copy Share Image
“I wasn't lonely. Loneliness, I think, has very little to do with location. It's a state of mind. In the centre of… — Chris Hadfield Copy Share Image
She didnʹt know if she could carry on by herself, but then, she realized that if this wasnʹt a dream—and dear God,… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
One who shows signs of mental aberration is, inevitably, perhaps, but cruelly, shut off from familiar, thoughtless intercourse, partly excommunicated; his isolation… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
Just before a fight, as the ring empties, you can feel it. There is danger and loneliness all around you. Soon it's… — David Haye Copy Share Image
“Shrinking in a corner, pressed into the wall; do they know I'm present, am I here at all? Is there a written… — Lang Leav Copy Share Image
“The years passed like the steps of a staircase leading lower and lower. I did not walk any more in the sun… — Anna Kavan Copy Share Image
“…The truth: dreaming is lonely the further away the closer to this one time No one has held me for so long… — Angkarn Chanthathip Copy Share Image
“You think that devastation and loneliness is just a Jade concept and that all us heathens surrounding you haven’t got a clue… — Criss Copp Copy Share Image
If you write fiction, you're by yourself. There are certain advantages to that in that you don't have to explain anything to… — Denis Johnson Copy Share Image
“Raven had been shunned and abandoned throughout his life. Friends often came and went without a word or worse, they toyed with… — Amanda M. Lyons Copy Share Image
