Loneliness Quotes

• Jealousy is a terrible thing. I know all the psychological triggers. The fear of losing control, the fear of loss, the fear of abandonment, neglect and loneliness... But the most destructive thing about jealousy is that it kills what it values - the love you want to save won't survive the constraints of jealousy. There is no entitlement. Love is either equal or a tragedy.

  

  Michael Robotham
  • Tragedy
  • Destructive
  • Abandonment

• I was feeling lonely without her, but the fact that I could feel lonely at all was consolation. Loneliness wasn't such a bad feeling. It was like the stillness of the pin oak after the little birds had flown off.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Feel
  • Birds
  • Consolation

• There was nothing lonelier than a man with a million friends.

  

  William Shatner
  • Men
  • Loneliness
  • Millions

• My despair is less despair than boredom and loneliness.

  

  Anthony Swofford
  • Despair
  • Loneliness
  • Boredom

• And I never thought this life was possible,You're the yellow bird that I've been waiting for. In polaroids you were dressed in women's clothes Were you made ashamed, why'd you lock them in a drawer? Well, I don't think that I ever loved you more Well let the poets cry themselves to sleep And all their tearful words will turn back into steam The sound of loneliness makes me happier.

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • Thinking
  • Sleep
  • Waiting

• I'm one of the millions of immigrant children, children of loneliness, wandering between worlds that are at once too old and too new to live in.

  

  Anzia Yezierska
  • World
  • Children
  • Immigrants

• There's a pervading sense of loneliness I've had since the day I was born. Maybe a lot of other people feel the same way, but I'm not about to run up and down the street asking everybody if they're as lonely as I am. I'd probably get locked up.

  

  Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
  • People
  • Running
  • Lonely

• I barely noticed loneliness anymore; it was my normal condition, by necessity if not by nature.

  

  Rachel Hartman
  • Nature
  • Conditions
  • Normal

• Once in a while, people enter our lives and lessen the loneliness of being away from Home.

  

  Yasmin Mogahed
  • People
  • Home
  • Loneliness

• They are sharing a drink called loneliness.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Drink
  • Loneliness
  • Sharing

• When we look within ourselves with psilocybin, we discover that we do not have to look outward toward the futile promise of life that circles distant stars in order to still our cosmic loneliness. We should look within; the paths of the heart lead to nearby universes full of life and affection for humanity.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Heart
  • Humanity
  • Path

• And so at Binz, dragged out of my pleasant dream to night and loneliness, I could not move for a moment for sheer extremity of fright. When I did, when I did put out a shaking hand to feel for the matches, the dread of years became a reality—I touched another hand. Now I think it was very wonderful of me not to scream. I suppose I did not dare. I don’t know how I managed it, petrified as I was with terror, but the next thing that happened was that I found myself under the bedclothes thinking things over. Whose hand had I touched? And what was it doing on my table? It was a nasty, cold hand, and it had clutched at mine as I tore it away. Oh—there it was, coming after me—it was feeling its way along the bedclothes—surely it was not real—it must be a nightmare—and that was why no sound came when I tried to shriek.

  

  Elizabeth von Arnim
  • Thinking
  • Dream
  • Reality

• It takes loneliness in oneself to recognize it in another.

  

  Aimee Carter
  • Loneliness
  • Oneself

• Letting go, it's so hard The way it's hurting now To get this love untied So tough to stay with this thing 'cos if I follow through I face what I denied I'll get those hooks out of me And I'll take out the hooks that I sunk deep in your side Kill that fear of emptiness, that loneliness I hide.

  

  Peter Gabriel Genesis
  • Heart
  • Fear
  • Hurt

• The whole problem of life, then, is this: how to break out of one's own loneliness, how to communicate with others.

  

  Cesare Pavese
  • Life
  • Problem
  • Communicate

• I have always photographed loneliness because that is my life.

  

  Bob Richardson
  • My Life
  • Loneliness
  • Photographed

• One leaf left on a branch and not a sound of sadness or despair. One leaf left on a branch and no unhappiness. One leaf left all by itself in the air and it does not speak of loneliness or death. One leaf and it spends itself in swaying mildly in the breeze.

  

  David Ignatow
  • Despair
  • Breeze
  • Branch

• If we don't accept loneliness, then capitalism wins hands down. Because capitalism is all about trying to convince people that you can distract yourself, that you can make it better. And it ain't true.

  

  Tilda Swinton
  • People
  • Trying
  • Winning

• Who can really distinguish between the sea and what's reflected in it? Or tell the difference between the falling rain and loneliness?

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Difference
  • Loneliness
  • Reflected

• We are so lonely in life that we must ask ourselves if the loneliness of dying is not a symbol of our human existence.

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Loneliness
  • Human Existence

• We poets would die of loneliness but for women, and we choose our men friends that we may have somebody to talk about women with. Letter to Olivia Shakespeare, 1936

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Women
  • Death
  • Friendship

• The Passion of Christ was an experience which included in itself every experience except sin, of every member of the human race. If one may say this with reverence, the fourteen incidents of the Stations of the Cross show not only the suffering but the Psychology of Christ. Above all, they show, in detail, his way of transforming suffering by love. He shows us, step by step, how that plan of love can be carried out by men, women, and children today, both alone in the loneliness of their individual lives and together in communion with one another.

  

  Caryll Houselander
  • Men
  • Children
  • Passion

• The pain of loneliness is one way in which he wants to get our attention. We may be earnestly desiring to be obedient and holy. But we may be missing the fact that it is here, where we happen to be at this moment and not in another place or another time, that we may learn to love Him - here where it seems He is not at work, where He seems obscure or frightening, where He is not doing what we expected Him to do, where He is most absent. Here and nowhere else is the appointed place. If faith does not got to work here, it will not work at all.

  

  Elisabeth Elliot
  • Love
  • Faith
  • Attention

• The surest sign of age is loneliness.

  

  Annie Dillard
  • Age
  • Loneliness
  • Sign

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