Loneliness Quotes - page 5

And behind their frail partitions Business women lie and soak, Seeing through the draughty skylight Flying clouds and railway smoke.Rest you there, poor unbelov'd ones, Lap your loneliness in heat, All too soon the tiny breakfast, Trolley-bus and windy street! (John Betjeman)
I think she ate a salad and some soup. And loneliness. She ate that, too. View quote
Markus Zusak
She was like a lone angel floating above the surface of the earth, laughing with delight because she could fly but crying out of loneliness. View quote
Markus Zusak
The worst thing about loneliness is that it brings one face to face with oneself. View quote
Mary Balogh
I dont fear death so much as I fear its prologues: loneliness, decrepitude, pain, debilitation, depression, senility. After a few years of those, I imagine death presents like a holiday at the beach. View quote
Mary Roach
Hostility comes from loneliness, from not seeing yourself like a drop falling into the ocean of humanity like everyone else. View quote
Mehmet Oz
Loneliness and hunger were my fortunes of creation. View quote
Mo Yan
Anger is a manifestation of a deeper issue... and that, for me, is based on insecurity, self-esteem and loneliness. View quote
Naomi Campbell
Some days, 24 hours is too much to stay put in, so I take the day hour by hour, moment by moment. I break the task, the challenge, the fear into small, bite-size pieces. I can handle a piece of fear, depression, anger, pain, sadness, loneliness, illness. I actually put my hands up to my face, one next to each eye, like blinders on a horse. View quote
Regina Brett
People were buying milk, or filling their cars with petrol, or even posting letters. And what no one else knew was the appalling weight of the thing they were carrying inside. The superhuman effort it took sometimes to be normal, and a part of things that appeared both easy and everyday. The loneliness of that. View quote
Rachel Joyce
If you've ever had that feeling of loneliness, of being an outsider, it never quite leaves you. You can be happy or successful or whatever, but that thing still stays within you. (Tim Burton)
I think one of the most poignant things is unrequited love and loneliness. View quote
Wilbur Smith
There's a sorrow and pain in everyone's life, but every now and then there's a ray of light that melts the loneliness in your heart and brings comfort like hot soup and a soft bed. View quote
Hubert Selby Jr.
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. View quote
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Loneliness is a kind of prison. [Vincent Van Gogh]. View quote
Irving Stone
Some feelings sink so deep into the heart that only loneliness can help you find them again. Some truths are so painful that only shame can help you live with them. Some things are so sad that only your soul can do the crying for them. View quote
Gregory David Roberts
Negative emotions like loneliness, envy, and guilt have an important role to play in a happy life; they're big, flashing signs that something needs to change. View quote
Gretchen Rubin
Keep in mind that to avoid loneliness, many people need both a social circle and an intimate attachment. Having just one of two may still leave you feeling lonely. View quote
Gretchen Rubin
Remember that although the distinction can be difficult to draw, loneliness and solitude are different. View quote
Gretchen Rubin
I also have the impression that many women have been able, instinctively, to sniff out this loneliness of mine, which I confided to no one, and this in later years was to become one of the causes of my being taken advantage of. View quote
Osamu Dazai
She stays in the same spot, anchored by the profound, desperate loneliness of a bad relationship. (David Levithan)
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? View quote
David Levithan
Modern loneliness is an extraverted loneliness, in which the person is surrounded by many people and partakes of much communication but feels unrecognized and more alone and, although connected technically, isolated and even estranged emotionally. View quote
Edward Hallowell
A blank wall of social and professional antagonism faces the woman physician that forms a situation of singular and painful loneliness, leaving her without support, respect or professional counsel. View quote
Elizabeth Blackwell
... real loneliness is having no one to miss. Think yourself lucky you've known something worth missing. View quote
Emma Donoghue