Lonliness Quotes:

I am not sure what lonliness is," she said. "If it is not literally being solitary, is it the fear of solitude, of being alone with oneself? I feel no such fear. I like being alone." "What do you fear then?" he asked her. She glanced briefly at him and smiled, a fragile expression that spoke for itself even before she found words. "Never finding myself again....

- Mary Balogh

source: Mary Balogh (2006). “Simply Love”, p.57, Delacorte Press

topic: Expression, Solitude, Lonliness, Finding Myself, Like Being Alone

The only things that erased my lonliness were written works

- Novala Takemoto

topic: Lonliness

He never felt lonliness except when he was happy.

- Ayn Rand

topic: Lonliness, Felt

Yes, they're sharing a drink they call loneliness But it's better than drinkin' alone.

- Billy Joel

source: "Song: 'Piano Man'". 1973.

topic: Drinking, Drink, Lonliness

Love only brought me lonliness and horror.

- James Frey

topic: Horror, Lonliness

You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.

- Wayne Dyer

source: "Dr. Wayne Dyer Lives On" by Stephanie Seibel, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 3, 2015.

topic: Confidence, Lonely, Clever, Improve Self Esteem, Inspirational Confidence

The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

topic: Love, Beauty, Loneliness, Soul Beauty, Walking Forward

Don't attach yourself to anyone who shows you the least bit of attention because you're lonely. Lonliness is the human condition. No one is ever going to fill that space. The best thing you can do it know yourself... know what you want.

- Janet Fitch

source: "White Oleander". www.imdb.com. 2002.

topic: Lonely, Space, Want, Oleanders, Lonliness

We're all torn between the desire for privacy and the fear of lonliness. We need each other and we need to get away from each other. We need proximity and distance, conversation and silence. We almost always get more of each than we want at any one time.

- Andy Rooney

topic: Distance, Silence, Desire, Away From Each Other, We Need Each Other

Sometimes he caught himself listening to the sound of his own voice. He thought that in her eyes he would ascent to an angelical stature; and, as he attached the fervent nature of his companion more and more closely to him, he heard the strange impersonal voice which he recognised as his own, insisting on the soul's incurable lonliness. We cannot give ourselves, it said: we are our own.

- James Joyce

topic: Eye, Voice, Giving, Her Eyes, Lonliness

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?

- Jack Gilbert

topic: Night, Long, Buckets, Lonliness

But now that I am old, moving every year closer to the end of my life, I also feel closer to the beginning. And I remember everything that happened that day becasue it has happened many times in my life. The same innocence, trust, and restlessness; the wonder, fear, and lonliness. How I lost myself. I remember all these things. And tonight, on the fifteenth day of the eighth moon, I also remember what I asked the Moon Lady so long ago. I wished to be found.

- Amy Tan

source: Amy Tan (2006). “The Joy Luck Club”, p.83, Penguin

topic: Moving, Moon, Remembers Everything, Lost Myself, Lonliness

I didn't think I was in a morbid mood, but it appears I am. My mind goes round and round trying to figure things out, but I always come back to the same two things: Loneliness and Death. Life ends before we figure anything out, most importantly how not to be lonely. Solitude is fine. But feeling like you have no one to love - abject lonliness - is not alright.

- Jonathan Ames

topic: Lonely, Loneliness, Thinking, Lonliness

With the advent of winter, her eyes seemed to take on a greater transparency, a transparency that lead nowhere. Occassionally, for no particular reason, Naoko would gaze into my eyes as if searching for something. Each time I was filled with odd sensations of lonliness and inadequecy.

- Haruki Murakami

source: Haruki Murakami (1989). “Norwegian Wood”

topic: Eye, Winter, Advent, Lonliness

In racing, they say that your car goes where your eyes go. The driver who cannot tear his eyes away from the wall as he spins out of control will meet that wall; the driver who looks down the track as he feels his tires break free will regain control of his vehicle.

- Garth Stein

topic: Wall, Eye, Track, Lonliness

In the presence of their love I sensed my lonliness, and I understood for a moment, clearly, that deep and basic human desire for companionship at depth.

- Luke Davies

source: Luke Davies (2002). “Isabelle the Navigator”, p.63, Penguin

topic: Desire, Depth, Companionship, Lonliness

All the fear in the world, and the violence that comes from the fear, and the hatred that comes from the violence, and the lonliness that comes from the hatred. All the unhappiness, all the cruelty, it gathers like clouds in the air, and grows dark and cold and heavy, and falls like grey snow in thick layers over the land. Then the world is muffled and numb, and no one can hear each other or feel each other. Think how sad and lonely that must be.

- William Nicholson

source: William Nicholson (2002). “Firesong”, Egmont Books (UK)

topic: Lonely, Fall, Dark, Lonliness, Sad And Lonely

Lonliness evaporated off of them like the steam off dry ice, and by morning it was just a cloud on the ceiling of the room, then gone with the light.

- Christopher Moore

topic: Morning, Clouds, Light, Lonliness, Dry Ice

The musty smell, the bugs, the lonliness, this room, which is part of the street outside-this is all I want from life.

- Jean Rhys

topic: Smell, Want, Rooms, Lonliness