“Things go backward. And then, one day, whatever it is we had, it’s gone. It won’t come back. We both know it.… — Charles Yu Copy Share Image
When I get lonely these days, I think: So BE lonely, Liz. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it.… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Some degree of withdrawal serves to nurture man's creative powers. The artist and the scientist bring out of the dark void, like… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
“My skin hungered for you. You were warm, and alive, and in my bed, and I wanted you so bad I could… — Julio-Alexi Genao Copy Share Image
“I didn’t have the vaguest idea of what to do – I couldn’t keep staring at the wall forever, I told myself.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“How lonely I was, even when I was with him. How it felt, him not making love to me, being affectionate, making… — Kristen Ashley Copy Share Image
So, now I shall talk every night. To myself. To the moon. I shall walk, as I did tonight, jealous of my… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“As always when he worked with this much concentration he began to feel a sense of introverting pressure. There was no way… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
A life without a lonely place, that is, a life without a quiet center, easily becomes destructive. When we cling to the… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
I'm an extremely introverted and isolated writer, but I was starting to feel exhausted and as if my writing was becoming redundant.… — Sabrina Claudio Copy Share Image
“I didn't let her go. She went. It's not my fault. She did it. She could undo it. This is feeling so… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
“Looking at her, thinking of her transported him, which struck him as vile because now it was hard for him not to… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
you were already more beautiful than anything I dared to dream. In our years apart, my imaginings did their best to improve… — William Goldman Copy Share Image
“Needless to say, I had been alone on other occasions during the year. Needless to say, my girlfriend was only two hours… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“I don’t think that loneliness is necessarily a bad or unconstructive condition. My own skill at jamming time may actually be dependent… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
The gay life is filled with as much cruelty and loneliness as the heterosexual life... I search into my dreams or desires… — Arthur Tress Copy Share Image
“The boat has become supreme isolation, chosen isolation, holding myself apart from the world, which I only dimly understand anyway. I can… — Nick Flynn Copy Share Image
The most loneliest feeling is when one finally has found after all one has been through.. Found some surrounding of company. Friends,… — Alexander Fennis Copy Share Image
“Pale winter sun Is beatin' the ground Why'm I throwin' away The best thing that I've found My young heart's in tatters… — David gray Copy Share Image
The impulse to perfection cannot exist where the definition of perfection is the arbitrary decision of authority. That which is born in… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
As for fame, fame felt like nothing. Fame was not a sensation like love or hunger or loneliness, welling from within and… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“I had no problem spending Monday through Friday alone, Saturdays were neutral, but each Sunday had to be reckoned with. There's solitude… — Chloe Aridjis Copy Share Image
“And tonight I'm feelin like an astronaut, sending sos from this tiny box,and i lost the signal when i lifted off, now… — Simple Plan Copy Share Image
And we'd look at each other the way you do when you see someone on the street you think you recognize, but… — Michele Jaffe Copy Share Image
“What was it - this implacable remoteness, this inability to surrender herself to the warmth and comradely feelings of others? Could being… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
Conversations are efforts toward good relations. They are an elementary form of reciprocity. They are the exercise of our love for each… — Barry Lopez Copy Share Image
“I press my back against the wall and feel the pressure of it against my whole body. I want to feel enclosed… — Brigid Pasulka Copy Share Image
A lonely world, a lonely girl, one lonely life where she tries to fit in. At school she feels like a fool… — Slowly_fading Copy Share Image
We can also allow our Soul mate to pass us by, without accepting him or her,or even noticing. Then we will need… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It wasn't always like this. There was a time when I imagined my life could happen in another way. It's true that… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
And behind their frail partitions Business women lie and soak, Seeing through the draughty skylight Flying clouds and railway smoke. Rest you… — John Betjeman Copy Share Image
There was all this loneliness in my cartoons and people would say, "Gee, these characters are so lonely, disconnected, depressed." And I'd… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
My peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication - it makes them sociable. I, however, cannot force myself to use… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
I am alone and my spiritual journey is my experience.' This is the real experience of freedom and independence. Then we begin… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
“A writer out of loneliness is trying to communicate like a distant star sending signals. He isn't telling, or teaching, or ordering.… — Ken Doggett Copy Share Image
“Our language has wisely sensed these two sides of man’s being alone. It has created the word “loneliness” to express the pain… — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
Even the rich aren't often happy. Their wealth is at best only a temporary distraction. It doesn't make them immune to emotional… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: 'This… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The man of genius, like a dog with a bone, or the slave who has swallowed a diamond, or a patient with… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I've chosen a life that's so different from everybody else's that it cuts me off from them. Practically everybody I know treats… — Jordan Mechner Copy Share Image
