Columns Quote by Carson McCullers

But at least this got Mouth thinking about how his loneliness wasn't unique. We all suffered. And I guess we all had good times…

— David Lubar

There was an enjoyment to being alive, he felt, that because of an underlying meaninglessness–like how a person alone for too long cannot feel…

— Tao Lin

“The essential impact of life's loneliness crushed his beginning-to-tremble body. Mother was alone, too. She could not look to the sanctity of marriage, the…

— Ray Bradbury

“Year by year, his life wasn't amounting to anything at all...And yet, another part of him had expanded: his self-consciousness, his self-pity -- oh,…

— Kiran Desai

There was one of his lonelinesses coming, one of those times when he walked the streets or sat, aimless and depressed, biting a pencil…

— Anonymous

How could anyone survive even a single day, if he didn't feel as if he was, in some little great way, needed?

— Robert Reed

“He met failure as one day he would probably meet death, with cynical resentment and the courage of a solitary.”

— John le Carré

“He hurt everywhere, so at least he must be alive. Another comforting thought because, despite everything, he wanted to be alive. It was the…

— John Martel

Without his mate to share his life, he was but a screen for events and circumstances to pass through. He was npt even empty,…

— J.R. Ward

He began to cry, not hysterically or screaming as people cry when concealed rage with tears, but with continuous sobs who has just discovered…

— Stephen King

It was strange to have no self-to be like a little boy left alone in a big house, who knew that now he could…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Anyone who cannot cope with life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate...but with…

— Franz Kafka