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There in the center of that silence was not eternity but the death of time and a loneliness so profound the word itself had no meaning.
— Toni Morrison
He was hungry without yet knowing that hunger could be slaked by food; he was lonely without yet knowing that loneliness could be slaked, too.
— Gregory Maguire
She had said that she preferred to be alone for so many years that it was now one of those things that equally well might or might not be true.
— Joyce Ballou Gregorian
It was the first time she had ever felt the kind of loneliness that couldn't be cured with just any available company.
— Lisa Kleypas
Amongst the bitter fruits of life, death is not the worst by a long chalk. the worst is to live far away from oneself
— Juan Jose Millas
Each day was very much like any other day, because they were alone so much that nothing ever disturbed them.
— Carson McCullers
I stood lonely enough, but to that feeling of isolation I was accustomed: it did not oppress me much.
— Charlotte Bronte
No one realized that, being left out in the cold, I was also very much in the dark.
— Deborah Curtis
Life, despite the accompanying loneliness that afflicts human without umbilical attachments, was to be cherished for the sheer joy of nature.
— Aporva Kala
Was it really some other person I was so anxious to discover ... or was it only my own solitude that I could not abide?
— David Markson
I decided that maybe we left each other alone too much. Leaving each other alone was killing us.
— Benjamin Alire Saenz
Among the many things it meant was that even to loneliness there is an end, for those who are lonely enough, long enough.
— Theodore Sturgeon
There was no wind which could have swept my thoughts away from my bositerous heart; not that day, not this day and not any other day
— Pushpa Rana
That was bliss. Being cared for. Wanted. Feeling so necessary to someone's existence that there was no place for the loneliness inside her.
— Julie Miller
It was a truth I had to accept, a truth that underscored that I had aged - one that brought with its attendant images of loneliness and irrelevance.
— Bhaskar Ghose
It was at that moment that I came to the conclusion that there is some link between plants and loneliness.
— Adam Rapp
There I was, casually wishing that I could stop existing in the same way you'd want to leave an empty room or mute an unbearably repetitive noise.
— Allie Brosh
I don't know why solitude would be a balm for loneliness, but that is how it always was for me in those days,
— Marilynne Robinson
It was a weird kind of loneliness, feeling that some of my closest friends didn't actually know I existed.
— Sarah Dessen
What I feared most, though, about my decision to remain celibate was that I had thereby doomed myself to lifelong loneliness.
— Wesley Hill
When he was this close to me, I could feel his palpable yearning. I could sense that gut-wrenching loneliness he'd suffered.
— Kresley Cole
But, I was lead to believe that loneliness was only a minor fracture of why I wanted to be his.
— Valerie King
My loneliness was an important part of my own little universe, not some pathological disease that needs to be gotten [sic] rid of.
— Banana Yoshimoto
George was offering her a way of life that she had never known. No more loneliness.
— Elizabeth Waite
Today's word was interminable, meaning never-ending. Like his loneliness. Like the love he felt for Kate. Like the awful hurt that wouldn't go away.
— Margaret Brownley
It wasn't the loneliness of command that was bothering him. It was the being-fried-alive of command that was giving him problems. He
— Terry Pratchett
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 it was time that made me lost what we were, then i hate time ...
— Maira Zafred Marinho Mesel
At that time I was only twenty-four years old. My life then was already gloomy, disorderly, and solitary to the point of savagery.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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
Maybe that was the key to getting rid of the loneliness, I thought. Treating love as entertainment, not as salvation.
— Tiffanie DeBartolo
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
Unfair. I was fighting with some core, self-fulfilling loneliness that made me push people away.
— C.D. Reiss
There was a marvelous, dark lyricism in his voice, the kind of defiance that is rooted in deep loneliness.
— Tom Robbins
Quinn wanted to make her see that people didn't live like this; but what was the use. No one was going to get her away from Bird Man out there.
— Thomas McGuane
It's so stupid because all I wanted was space and now that I have it, there's this part of me that's achingly lonely I could die.
— Hannah Harrington
The old gal was only another lonely creature in a world that didn't care
— Charles Bukowski
I learned much too late
that what you called love
was nothing but a
desperate and irrational
fear of a life lived alone. — Beau Taplin
that what you called love
was nothing but a
desperate and irrational
fear of a life lived alone. — Beau Taplin
She wondered if there was a word for loneliness that wasn't quite so general.
— Jennifer E. Smith
He knew that loneliness was poisoning him, so that he grew viler as well as more unhappy.
— E. M. Forster
All we had was her room, her stories, and the quiet that settled in as we tried in vain to spread ourselves out and fill the space she'd left behind.
— Sarah Dessen
I was lonely, and a lonely heart has hungers that can overpower both common sense and dignity.
— Robin Hobb
But what I did sense was an emptiness like a black hole inside of him, and there was no predicting what might emerge from a place like that.
— Ryu Murakami
For was that all, she thought bleakly, that love ever was? Something that saved one from loneliness? A sort of insurance policy against not counting?
— Sarah Waters