Quotes on “loneliness”

Nobody likes being alone that much. I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all. It just leads to disappointment.

It’s how I fill the time when nothing’s happening. Thinking too much, flirting with melancholy.

All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart.

The strength of a love is always misjudged if we evaluate it by its immediate cause and not the stress that went before it, the dark and hollow space full of disappointment and loneliness that precedes all the great events in the heart's history.

even in the loneliest momentsi have been therefor myself.

That’s love: Two lonely persons keep each other safe and touch each other and talk to each other.

For someone like myself in whom the ability to trust others is so cracked and broken that I am wretchedly timid and am forever trying to read the expression on people's faces.

When we are most alone is when we embrace another's loneliness.

Solitude is the soil in which genius is planted, creativity grows, and legends bloom; faith in oneself is the rain that cultivates a hero to endure the storm, and bare the genesis of a new world, a new forest.

If loneliness was a choice, what was the other option? To settle for second-best and try to be happy with that? And was that fair to the person you settled for?

People Die...Beauty Fades...Love Changes...And You Will Always Be Alone

It is beautiful, it is endless, it is full and yet seems empty. It hurts us.

For those who know the value of and exquisite taste of solitary freedom (for one is only free when alone), the act of leaving is the bravest and most beautiful of all.

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.

Maybe reading was just a way to make her feel less alone, to keep her company. When you read something you are stopped, the moment is stayed, you can sometimes be there more fully than you can in your real life.

...and you drink a little too much and try a little too hard. And you go home to a cold bed and think, 'That was fine'. And your life is a long line of fine.

Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.

We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community.