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We lived in a small house, so there was no escape from the goddamn racket of her loneliness. — Sherman Alexie

I know nothing - nothing in the world - of the hearts of men. I only know that I am alone - horribly alone. — Ford Madox Ford

She needed intimacy and a sense of partaking in, not just observing, real life. — Eiji Yoshikawa

The rain echoed in the shadowy attic space and made me feel small and fragile, like a lace glove left behind on moving day - mateless and abandoned. — Dia Reeves

Margie Flynn was in my head like a bad cold, blurring everything. It was a new kind of loneliness, a hurt I couldn't stop picking at. — Chris Fuhrman

Maybe loneliness was imprinted in my genes, lying dormant for years but now coming into full bloom. — Karen Thompson Walker

Because sometimes it's being in a crowd that makes you feel lonelier than when you're alone. — Winna Efendi

I was in awe of the mystery of human compassion and the inability of love to make the distance between us any more bearable. — Keith Hollihan

It's a treat, being a long-distance runner, out in the world by yourself . . . - Alan Sillitoe, The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner — John L. Parker Jr.

We are not defined by our individual loneliness, but by the web of relationships in which we're enmeshed. — Ken Liu

I'm scared of losing this web we're in. This elusive, indefinable, opposite of loneliness. — Marina Keegan

Loneliness can make you feel that you have a kingdom in darkness. — MRK ONTIM

There can be no final solution to our loneliness in this life. — Ronald Rolheiser

In solitude, we lose our loneliness. — Wendell Berry

I know the dark delight of being strange, The penalty of difference in the crowd, The loneliness of wisdom among fools ... — Claude McKay

Like dry ground welcoming the rain, he let the solitude, silence, and loneliness soak in. — Haruki Murakami

Loneliness burns in towers of fire around us — Christopher Poindexter

Man has no choice but to love. For when he does not, he finds his alternatives lie in loneliness, destruction and despair. — Leo Buscaglia

I have been a stranger here in my own land: All my life — Sophocles

I was a tourist in a bizarre land. I was home. — Rabih Alameddine

The feelings we live through
in love and in loneliness
are simply, for us,
what high tide
and low tide are to the sea. — Kahlil Gibran

In the sinking sand,
where we've come to rest,
have I had a hand in your loneliness? — Joanna Newsom

No deeper loneliness than the Samurai's. None but the tiger's in the jungle perhaps. He — Jack Higgins

Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience. — Elizabeth Gilbert

On certain continents poverty is more spiritual than material, a poverty that consists of loneliness, discouragement, and the lack of meaning in life. — Mother Teresa

Being human is the most terrible loneliness in the universe. — A.A. Attanasio

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

I don't believe in cutting out people from the past. It doesn't give strength; it just gives loneliness. — Carla Bruni

Travel is in sad case. It is uncomfortable, it is expensive; it is a source of annoyance to our friends, and of loneliness to ourselves. — Vita Sackville-West

Loneliness is the theme, and I play it like a symphony, in endless variations. — Jonathan Tropper

When other girls were dreaming about love, she dreamt of love too, but in an entirely different context - the ones they took for granted. — Donna Lynn Hope

In other people's company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring ... — Andre Gide

Very often I realize that the time people spend apart is as important in maintaining relationships as the time they spend together. — Joyce Rachelle

Loneliness kills. It becomes more conspicuous in the crowd. — Girdhar Joshi

Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate. — Germaine Greer

and it is only in loneliness, as Goethe says, that your perceptions put forth their flowers. — E.F. Benson

There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house. — Eric Hoffer

What wants to live in you may be waiting ... at the end of a long loneliness. — Elizabeth Lesser

Sometimes the rain
falls
just for you and me

to be the violin
playing
in the background
of our loneliness's song. — Sanober Khan

There was a marvelous, dark lyricism in his voice, the kind of defiance that is rooted in deep loneliness. — Tom Robbins

Loneliness is holding in a joke because you have no one to share it with. — Neil Strauss

Maybe ever'body in the whole damn world is scared of each other. — John Steinbeck

Loneliness is just space expanding around you. Trust uncertainty. Sadness is life holding you in its hands and changing you. Make solitude your home. — Rachel Corbett

I watched the moon alone, unable to share his cold beauty with anyone. — Haruki Murakami

You want to believe you're not the saddest person in the world. — Megan Miranda

Loneliness is not lack of companion; it is the absence of the right people in our life. That is why we are alone even among the people. — M.F. Moonzajer

We are most of us very lonely in this world; you who have any who love you, cling to them and thank God. — William Makepeace Thackeray

The old gal was only another lonely creature in a world that didn't care — Charles Bukowski

She knows that loneliness can kill people - in different ways can actually make you die. (68) — Elizabeth Strout

I had learned even loneliness could leave an absence if it had lived in you long enough. — Beau Taplin

Nor law, nor duty bade me fight, Nor public men, nor cheering crowds, A lonely impulse of delight Drove to this tumult in the clouds. — William Butler Yeats

In solitude the lonely man is eaten up by himself, among crowds by the many. — Friedrich Nietzsche

One can experience loneliness in two ways: by feeling lonely in the world or by feeling the loneliness of the world. — Emil Cioran

Each man lives love in his limited fashion and does not seem to relate the resultant confusion and loneliness to his lack of knowledge about love. — Leo Buscaglia

I realize, for the first time, how very lonely I've been in the arena. How comforting the presence of another human being can be. — Suzanne Collins

American loneliness is a completely different creature from anything we experience in this country, and it made me glad I was born japanese. — Ryu Murakami

If I exist, then surely there must be someone else out there like me. — Joyce Rachelle

Anyone who is desperate or alone will agree there is comfort in routine. — Simon Van Booy

If you were left alone, you'd hate it. Loneliness gets old in a hurry — Dia Reeves

Sometimes I get tired. Sometimes I get bored. And sometimes all I want, more than anything else in the world, is to go on a freaking date. — Kiersten White

She's one in a million. And that's why she's lonely. — Joyce Rachelle

In a world filled with people, some happy, others like me, I feel so all alone. — Mary B. Morrison

I've been in that angst of loneliness, where you're really alone in the universe, except for the dog. — William Shatner

Half-drunk on well-creamed gas station coffee and the exhilarating loneliness of a freeway in nighttime ... — John Green

Communion over loneliness. Death not an end, but a beginning. At home in the absolute - and absolutely unknown - future. — James Carroll

We don't have a word for the opposite of loneliness, but if we did, I could say that's what I want in life. — Marina Keegan

An awareness had come over him that he wasn't going to die. Loneliness in itself could not destroy him. Neglect was insufficient. And so he slept. — Anne Rice

If a man cannot understand the beauty of life, it is probably because life never understood the beauty in him. — Criss Jami

Would being completely alone in a universe bring a sensation of closing limitations or infinitely expanding horizons with associated loneliness? — Peter F. Hamilton

I am not without an object in life, but I feel lonely and deserted. — Johanna Van Gogh-Bonger

It's lonely up in the top — Kermit The Frog

I felt the kind of loneliness that can happen in a roomful of people when everyone but you seems to be in on the good time. — Lisa Kleypas

Even the loneliest and most solitary in the universe... the very cold space dust... will eventually come together to form a star. — G.C. Huxley

We all need something to believe in. Without those beliefs we're just floating particles moving through the space time continuum. — Solange Nicole

So it is that Lonely Places attract as many lonely people as they produce, and the loneliness we see in them is partly in ourselves. — Pico Iyer

A momentary gain in one's own sense of shared despair, shared nullity, shared rapture, shared loneliness, shared broken-hearted glee; — Michael Chabon

She stays in the same spot, anchored by the profound, desperate loneliness of a bad relationship. — David Levithan

my heart, sometimes singing in the afternoon, the most haunting song of solitude — John J. Geddes

As lonesome as a kitten in a wash-house copper with the lid on. — Charles Dickens

I think fear keeps people in mundane lives. Fear of freedom, fear of loneliness; it's a powerful opium. — John Harris

Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying. — Arthur C. Clarke

I am lonely here sometimes. I'm like the gate, swinging in the breeze when I long for someone to just secure the latch and stop me from flailing about — Sarah Jio

Bad habits are demons that often push us into isolation because they know that in our loneliness they stand little chance of being overcome. — Richelle E. Goodrich

One day, your beauty will manifest in someone's eye. — Anthony Liccione

I have a mouth for kisses / No one to give or to take / I have a heart in my bosom / Beating for nobody's sake. — Lana Citron

If there was a hope of comfort for any moment, the heart or head of no human being in this house could yield it ... — Charlotte Bronte

Whenever I'm around people it causes me to feel nostalgic for the loneliness that drove me into their presence in the first place. — Dov Davidoff

The sentiment of immediate loss in some sort decayed, while that of utter, irremediable loneliness grew on me with time. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

I've been so lonely for long periods of my life that if a rat walked in I would have welcomed it. — Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

Being stigmatied by sex is being marked by its meaning in a human life of loneliness and imperfection, where some pain is indelible. — Andrea Dworkin

I have learned to be steady in my course of love, or fear, or loneliness, rather than impulsive in its wasting, either lyrically or emotionally. — Rosanne Cash

There was a story etched in each wrinkle on his forehead-the stories any long life can amass but that only a lonely life locks forever. — Ashay Abbhi

Here, in my solitude, I have the feeling that I contain too much humanity. — Ingmar Bergman

Why is it that the wounds we are afflicted with early in life don't disappear? Whether they are caused by abuse or humiliation or loneliness? — Erik Valeur

Loneliness had taught Harriet that there was always someone who understood - it was just so often that they were dead, and in a book. — Eva Ibbotson

Friendship is what really resolves and mitigates loneliness while not compromising the self in the way that love does, romantic love does. — Chuck Palahniuk

Let not the jolly be alone in the world, for they shall talk about the future and snag to do the exercises. — Auliq Ice

Photography is a very lonely medium. There's a kind of beautiful loneliness in voyeurism. And that's why I'm a photographer. — Alec Soth

Caught in your youniverse again? Try reaching out to the one besides you! — Stefan Emunds

What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one's self? — Henrik Ibsen