After a breakup, there is a great feeling of loneliness that overcomes us. For so long, we felt that we were a… — Felicity Cing Copy Share Image
“I’d never indulged in feelings of loneliness. Too dangerous. I’d learned that after my mother’s murder. Loneliness could swallow you up, like… — Marjorie M. Liu Copy Share Image
“When I was a kid, I used to watch that show, sitting on the couch in my pajamas and wishing more than… — Michael Thomas Ford Copy Share Image
“Who am I? They often tell me I would step from my cell's confinement calmly, cheerfully, firmly, like a squire from his… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“I do not know that Lady Glencora's heart was made of that stern stuff which refuses to change its impressions; but it… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
To live, we must daily break the body and shed the blood of Creation. When we do this knowingly, lovingly, skillfully, reverently,… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“Well -- there are two kinds of loneliness, aren't there? There's the loneliness of absolute solitude -- the physical fact of living… — Patricia Duncker Copy Share Image
I think the thing is that you're very affected by your early life, and I think that if you ever had that… — Tim Burton Copy Share Image
Everyone says that love hurts. But that's not true. Loneliness hurts, rejection hurts, losing someone hurts. Everyone confuses these with love, but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“By marrying her, Tony Takitani brought the lonely period of his life to an end. When he awoke in the morning, the… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
It made her think of Laika, the dog. The man-made satellite streaking soundlessly across the blackness of outer space. The dark, lustrous… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I have served many long and lonely years aboard ship in war zones, and the only thing that kept me sane during… — Don Pendleton Copy Share Image
Sylvia's dark eyes widened. "You are more than you appear to be" "Yes. I am a monster of Darkness, a beast," he… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Human sympathy has its limits, and we were content to let all their tragic arguments fade with the city lights behind. Thirty… — F Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Wounding and healing are not opposites. They're part of the same thing. It is our wounds that enable us to be compassionate… — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share Image
Oh, God, help me! And I walked faster, my thoughts pursuing me, and I began to run, my frozen shoes squealing like… — John Fante Copy Share Image
We need sometimes to escape into open solitudes, into aimlessness, into the moral holiday of running some pure hazard in order to… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
We, unaccustomed to courage exiles from delight live coiled in shells of loneliness until love leaves its high holy temple and comes… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“He seemed a part of the mute melancholy landscape, an incarnation of its frozen woe, with all that was warm and sentient… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
There was only the broad square with the scattered dim moons of the street lamps and with the monumental stone arch which… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
“Because in our pain we must find each other – mirror to mirror the grace of our shared humanity, the stunningly broken… — Jeanette LeBlanc Copy Share Image
“Our culture values independence and isolation far too much, it seems to me--we have a hard time making ourselves part of things,… — Tom Walsh Copy Share Image
“Our immune system does not exist in isolation from daily experience. For example, the immune defences that normally function in healthy young… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
People who are exceptionally intelligent are often lonely because there are few people as intelligent as them. I have two little children,… — Helen McCrory Copy Share Image
“People think loneliness is absence. It isn't. It's a filling up, a rising, spilling tide that crashes into every gully and chasm… — Sheila Turner Johnston Copy Share Image
“That's what Jamie didn't understand: it was never just sex. Even the fastest, dirtiest, most impersonal screw was about more than sex.… — Emily Maguire Copy Share Image
There is only one solitude, and it is vast, heavy, difficult to bear, and almost everyone has hours when he would gladly… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
He began to cry, not hysterically or screaming as people cry when concealed rage with tears, but with continuous sobs who has… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
In his or her own way, everyone I saw before me looked happy. Whether they were really happy or just looked it,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Modern life seems set up so that we can avoid loneliness at all costs, but maybe it's worthwhile to face it occasionally.… — Michael Finkel Copy Share Image
“She wondered how many towns like this existed all over the country?Bucolic scenery on the outside, with its own private soap operas,… — Jaime Allison Parker Copy Share Image
It's been a very remarkable year, and I feel very blessed. I lived an isolated lifestyle before the media. I lived a… — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
It is easier, of course, to find dignity in one's solitude. Loneliness is solitude with a problem. Can blue solve the problem,… — Maggie Nelson Copy Share Image
“Today the individual has become the highest form, and the greatest bane, of artistic creation. The smallest wound or pain of the… — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share Image
There is a loneliness that can be rocked. Arms crossed, knees drawn up, holding, holding on, this motion, unlike a ship's, smooths… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“We are all, in the last analysis, alone. And this basic state of solitude is not something we have any choice about.… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
I think God leaves me alone to let me find my own strength because no one else can give it to me.… — Sabrina Ward Harrison Copy Share Image
There is a particular kind of pain, elation, loneliness, and terror involved in this kind of madness. When you're high it's tremendous.… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
Living in a rural town really compelled me to start tweeting so much. Mostly, my Twitter usage is fueled by loneliness. I… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
I hold this to be the highest task of a bond between two people: that each shall stand guard over the solitude… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
