Drifting Quote by Avijeet Das

“He felt very lonely, yet there was a kind of pride in his loneliness.”

— Michael Ende

“...this blessing of loneliness was not really loneliness. Real loneliness was something unendurable. What one wanted when exhausted by the noise and impact of…

— Elizabeth Goudge

“When he was a boy he was happy when the men arrived, and in a way wanted them to remain forever--but he was also…

— Amanda Coplin

“He felt lonely. His solitude was thrown into relief by being observed.”

— Michael Frayn

“...but he felt the relief of being alone as well...the forgotten solitude which measures and verifies the strength of an affair, and which, being…

— Alan Hollinghurst

“Periodically throughout his life, he would seek comfort in his troubles by lurching into the wilderness, only to find more loneliness there and end…

— Steven Naifeh, Gregory White Smith ·

For the air of lonely men surrounded him now, a still atmosphere in which the world around him slipped away, leaving him incapable of…

— Hermann Hesse

“Day by day, the constant solitude drove him deeper inside himself, with only his thoughts for companions. Soon he might lose the capacity for…

— Sondra Allan Carr

“He felt light, lighter than ever in all his years. He had severed all relationships. It occurred to him that he had been alone…

— Joseph Roth

“Being alone was lonely, but there was an even greater loneliness sometimes when he was surrounded by a lot of other people who were…

— Daniel Wallace

“I had ways of consoling myself. Yes, there was food but there was beyond food, this idea I had of an oversoul of loneliness.…

— Liz Moore

“Though nothing much had happened, he felt that he had seen and experienced enough that day - thus securing his tomorrow. For today he…

— Peter Handke