Lonliness Quotes

Betty Smith

From that time on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again, never miss the lack of intimate friends. Books became her friends and there was one for every mood.

Carol Rifka Brunt

I need to figure out the secret. I need to work out how to keep things flying back to me instead of always flying away.

Michael Bassey Johnson

Always remember that you were once alone, and the crowd you see in your life today are just as unecessary as when you were alone.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Alone, alone, all, all alone,
Alone on a wide wide sea!
And never a saint took pity on
My soul in agony.

Jack Gilbert

The Abandoned Valley

Can you understand being alone so long
you would go out in the middle of the night
and put a bucket into the well
so you could feel something down there
tug at the other end of the rope?

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

A great measure of the real value of the things we have is how we feel when such things become scarce and absent in our lives

Michael Bassey Johnson

The consequences of seeking popularity is not only the chronic feeling of lonliness, but a desire to hide your face from the eyes of the universe.

Alafia Stewart

Sometimes we have toxic relationships with certain people. We know who they are, We know how they operate, and we still haven't cut them off. It's difficult for us to let people go, even if they hurt us because we have a greater fear of loneliness.

Maya Angelou

In the flush of love's light
we dare be brave
And suddenly we see
that love costs all we are
and will ever be.
Yet it is only love
which sets us free.

Milan Kundera

It's not your enemies who condemn you to solitude, it's your friends

Cynthia Kadohata

And yet we couldn't leave-it was if the rocks were holding us there. I mean, they were only rocks. But for some reason, those rocks made lonely feel good.

John Steinbeck

Oh, I guess I'm physically able to father a child. That's not what I'm thinking. I'm too closely married to a quiet reading lamp".

Linkin Park

It's easier to run
Replacing this pain with something numb
It's so much easier to go
Than face all this pain here all alone.

Susanna Kaysen

I would if somebody would want to but of course nobody would want to so I wouldn't want to force anybody to want to.

Sher E Yazdan

Family can't understand feeling of a child by giving money to him/her.you can understand the child feeling by talking with him/her

Dannah Gresh

The strange thing about loneliness is that we feel it most intently when we are with people. Loneliness is the knowing in our heart that we were created to really, truly know each other in the deepest sense but we feel stuck with superficiality.

Anna Akhmatova

My shadow serves as the friend I crave.

Dinesh Kumar Biran

She wore his flower
In her hair
Scent of amber
Sweetened the air
Her dress was white
Her feet bare
He found heaven
Waiting there
She is alive
In his painful sigh...

Jhumpa Lahiri

A woman who had fallen out of love with her life

Dean Koontz

In tragedy and despair, when an endless night seems to have fallen, hope can be found in the realization taht the companion of night is not another night, that the companion of night is day, that darkness always gives way to light, and that death rules only half of creation, life the other half.

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