“Beware of those who seek constant crowds; they are nothing alone.”
Lonely feeling
Lonely Quotes — page 12 of 309
“Three generations from shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves.”
“Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.”
“If we don't have each other, we go crazy with loneliness. When we do, we go crazy with togetherness.”
“Oh, brothers! I don't care for brothers. My elder brother won't die, and my younger brothers seem never to do anything else.”
“In the depths of every heart, there is a tomb and a dungeon, though the lights, the music, and revelry above may cause us to forget their existence, and the buried ones, or prisoners whom they hide. But sometimes, and oftenest at midnight, those dark receptacles are flung wide open. In an hour like this, when the mind has a passive sensibility, but no active strength; when the imagination is a mirror, imparting vividness to all ideas, without the power of selecting or controlling them; then pray that your grieves may slumber, and the brotherhood of remorse not break their chain.”
“If you cannot find a good companion to walk with, walk alone, like an elephant roaming the jungle. It is better to be alone than to be with those who will hinder your progress.”
“What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.”
“--then on the shore Of the wide world I stand alone, and think Till love and fame to nothingness do sink.”
“The greatest disease in the West today is not TB or leprosy; it is being unwanted, unloved, and uncared for. We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread but there are many more dying for a little love. The poverty in the West is a different kind of poverty -- it is not only a poverty of loneliness but also of spirituality. There's a hunger for love, as there is a hunger for God.”
“I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.”
“I've never been lonely. I've been in a room... I've felt suicidal, I've been depressed. I've felt awful ... awful beyond all , but I never felt that one other person could enter that room and cure what was bothering me...or that any number of people could enter that room. In other words, loneliness is something I've never been bothered with because I've always had this terrible itch for solitude.”
“I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.”
“I got along without you before I met you and I'll get along without you a long time after you're gone.”
“My mother never had time for me. When you're the middle child in a family of five million, you don't get any attention.”
“I have no plans to love you," said Coraline. "No matter what. You can't make me love you.”
“Anyone who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves. So anyone who's in love gets sad when they think of their lover. It's like stepping back inside a room you have fond memories of, one you haven't seen in a long time.”
“Football fans share a universal language that cuts across many cultures and many personality types. A serious football fan is never alone. We are legion, and football is often the only thing we have in common.”
“I know the night is not the same as the day: that all things are different, that the things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist, and the night can be a dreadful time for lonely people once their loneliness has started.”
“The simple lack of her is more to me than others' presence.”