Loneliness Quotes - Page 31

Well, I know about loneliness. I won't talk about it, but I was very lonely after the war. I know what it feels like to spend a whole weekend all by yourself and no one wants you at all.

Charles M. Schulz

Lonely, War, Weekend

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Why do we even bother? Why do we make ourselves so open to such easy damage? Is it all loneliness? Is it all fear? Or is it just to experience those narcotic moments of belonging with someone else?

David Levithan

Damage, Moments, Easy

Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2014). “Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist”, p.60, Egmont UK

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We’re always alone. You can be in a crowded room and still feel the bite of loneliness. Personally, I find that it bites deepest whenever others are around.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Rooms, Always Alone, Feels

Sherrilyn Kenyon (2011). “The Guardian”, p.14, Macmillan

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But loneliness, true loneliness, is impossible to accustom oneself to, and while I was still young I thought of my situation as somehow temporary, and did not stop hoping and imagining that I would meet someone and fall in love...Yes, there was a time before I closed myself off to others.

Nicole Krauss

Falling In Love, Impossible, Young

Nicole Krauss (2011). “Great House”, p.219, Penguin UK

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This, she thought, isn’t just for today. It’s for everything. For the heartache that still felt like a punch in the gut each time it struck, fresh as new, at unpredictable moments; for the smiling lies and the mental images she couldn’t shake; for the shame of having been so naive. For the way loneliness is worse when you return to it after a reprieve—like the soul’s version of putting on a wet bathing suit, clammy and miserable.

Laini Taylor

Lying, Heartache, Soul

Laini Taylor (2011). “Daughter of Smoke and Bone: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy”, p.20, Hachette UK

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Twilight whippoorwill... Whistle on, sweet deepener Of dark loneliness

Matsuo Basho

Sweet, Twilight, Dark

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I never really understood the word ‘loneliness’. As far as I was concerned, I was in an orgy with the sky and the ocean, and with nature.

Bjork

Ocean, Sky, Understood

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Why were we so far apart, even when we were together? It was a nice loneliness, like the sensation of washing your face in cold water.

Banana Yoshimoto

Nice, Water, Together

Banana Yoshimoto (2011). “The Lake”, p.187, Melville House

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I am no good without you, Ginesse,” he said. “I spent a lifetime alone, but I never understood loneliness until I was away from you. I never understood happiness until I saw you again.

Connie Brockway

Saws, Lifetime, Said

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A disquieting loneliness came into my life, but it induced no hunger for friends of longer acquaintance: they seemed now like a salt-free, sugarless diet.

Truman Capote

Salt, Hunger, Breakfast At Tiffanys

Truman Capote (2012). “Breakfast at Tiffany's”, p.28, Vintage

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Some of us are afraid of dying; others of human loneliness. Profane was afraid of land or seascapes like this, where nothing else lived but himself.

Thomas Pynchon

Land, Dying, Humans

Thomas Pynchon (2012). “V.”, p.11, Penguin

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There was just one moon. That familiar, yellow, solitary moon. The same moon that silently floated over fields of pampas grass, the moon that rose--a gleaming, round saucer--over the calm surface of lakes, that tranquilly beamed down on the rooftops of fast-asleep houses. The same moon that brought the high tide to shore, that softly shone on the fur of animals and enveloped and protected travelers at night. The moon that, as a crescent, shaved slivers from the soul--or, as a new moon, silently bathed the earth in its own loneliness. THAT moon.

Haruki Murakami

Animal, Moon, Night

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There is a loneliness more precious than life. There is a freedom more precious than the world. Infinitely more precious than life and the world is that moment when one is alone with God.

Rumi

Spiritual, Alone With God, World

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Don't you understand? Listen carefully to what I'm saying. If you do, you'll get it. you can grasp this easily. In short...in short, I shut myself in because I'm lonely. Because I don't want to face any more loneliness, I shut myself away.

Tatsuhiko Takimoto

Lonely, Want, Faces

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Loneliness doesn’t exist on any single plane of consciousness. It’s generally a low throb, barely audible, like the hum of a Mercedes engine in park, but every so often the demands of the highway call for a burst of acceleration, and the hum becomes a thunderous, elemental roar, and once again you’re reminded of what this baby’s carrying under the hood.

Jonathan Tropper

Baby, Demand, Parks

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Yet even in the loneliness of the canyon I knew there were others like me who had brothers they did not understand but wanted to help. We are probably those referred to as "our brother's keepers," possessed of one of the oldest and possible one of the most futile and certainly one of the most haunting instincts. It will not let us go.

Norman Maclean

Brother, Haunting, Helping

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Someone once wrote that musicians are touched on the shoulder by God, and I think it's true. You can make other people happy with music, but you can make yourself happy too. Because of my music, I have never known loneliness and never been depressed.

John Berendt

Thinking, People, Musician

John Berendt (2010). “Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil”, p.106, Vintage

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You can have everything in the world and still be the loneliest man. And that is the most bitter type of loneliness, success has brought me world idolisation and millions of pounds. But it's prevented me from having the one thing we all need: A loving, ongoing relationship.

Freddie Mercury

Men, Pounds, Needs

"Rock On Freddie". Interview, www.queenarchives.com. 1985.

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I've never been lonely. I've been in a room... I've felt suicidal, I've been depressed. I've felt awful ... awful beyond all , but I never felt that one other person could enter that room and cure what was bothering me...or that any number of people could enter that room. In other words, loneliness is something I've never been bothered with because I've always had this terrible itch for solitude.

Charles Bukowski

Lonely, Suicidal, Numbers

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There is nothing more painful than the untimely death of someone young and dear to the heart. The harrowing grief surges from a bottomless well of sorrow, drowning the mourner in a torrent of agonizing pain; an exquisite pain that continues to afflict the mourner with heartache and loneliness long after the deceased is buried and gone.

Jocelyn Murray

Pain, Grief, Heart

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Loneliness is bred of a mind that has grown earth-bound.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Mind, Earth, Bounds

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Action is limited and relative. Unlimited and absolute is the vision of him who sits at ease and watches, who walks in loneliness and dreams.

Oscar Wilde

Dream, Vision, Watches

Oscar Wilde (2015). “The critic as artist (low cost). Limited edition”, p.54, Oscar Wilde

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... the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be.

Bertrand Russell

Pain, World, Poverty

Bertrand Russell (2014). “The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell”, p.9, Routledge

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O yes, everyone gets lonely some time or other. After all, if we look closer into ourselves, shall we not admit that the warmth from other people comes so sweet to us when it comes, because, we always carry with us the knowledge of the cold loneliness of death?

Ama Ata Aidoo

Lonely, Sweet, People

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Skillful listening is the best remedy for loneliness, loquaciousness, and laryngitis.

William Arthur Ward

Inspirational, Listening, Remedy

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