Empty life Quote by Jill Thrussell

“Now that he was quite alone, condemned, deserted, as those who are about to die are alone, there was a luxury in it, an…

— Virginia Woolf

“He had missed the deepest of all companionships, a relation with the earth itself, with a countryside and a people. That relationship he knew…

— Willa Cather

“Some people are severely lonely, all they can do is accept the single life as an example of being free and happy.”

— Anthony Liccione

“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

“Isolation, for him, had become a basic sine qua non for existence and loneliness, his sole companion like a perfectly faithful twin. He was…

— Faraaz Kazi

“...there seemed some necessity of taking all or nothing; it was as if for the remainder of his life he was condemned to carry…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“They alone moved through the vast inertness. They alone were alive, and they sought for other things that were alive in order that they…

— Jack London

“I think there is a difference between aloneness and loneliness. Aloneness is necessary for the soul to thrive - even to come alive. Not…

— Steve Goodier

“If the single man plants himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abides, this huge world will come around to him.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“We were alone here. We had always been alone here. When we died and rid ourselves of our meaningless existences, we would die alone,…

— Madeline Sheehan

“Someone who seeks nothing but his own fate no longer has any companions, he stands quite alone and has only cold, universal space around…

— Hermann Hesse

“Where was he? Somewhere in there he lost the first phase of youth, like the first phase of a rocket; it had fallen, depleted,…

— Andrew Sean Greer