Being lonely Quote by Betty Smith

“Her upbringing had given her an independence of mind that made her more like a girl of today than one of her own time…

— Philip Pullman

...she had come long ago to understand that loneliness was the curse of those who were free, even of all those who rose a…

— Louis Bromfield

But although she was with family and friends, she'd never felt more alone. She felt as if she'd lost a vital part of herself…

— Debbie Macomber

She was lonely without Blunt, but she was lonelier at the idea that the world went on as though she had not loved him.

— Colm Toibin

“She had felt lonely for years, but now she truly was alone.”

— Kristin Hannah

Loneliness, she thought, was craving for other people's company. But she did not know that loneliness can be an unnoticed cramping of the spirit…

— Doris Lessing

...the pain of the constant, bone-chilling loneliness she'd accustomed herself to. And learned to live with it.

— Christina Dodd

She had been a solitary child, and then solitary as a woman, drawn into an orbit of her own that took her away from…

— Guy Gavriel Kay

“She had forgotten how to transmute loneliness into mere aloneness, how not to fall into the hole of his absence.”

— Bar Fridman-Tell

She had never before minded being alone. Now she dreaded it. When she was alone now she felt so dreadfully alone.

— Anonymous

From an early age she had developed the art of being alone and generally preferred her own company to anyone else’s. She read books…

— Sebastian Faulks

“There was something odd for him about not feeling lonely. The very fact that he had ceased to be lonely caused him to fear…

— Haruki Murakami