“The misanthrope, as an essentially solitary man, is not a man at all: he must be a beast or a god.”
Lonely feeling
Lonely Quotes — page 85 of 309
“What a person is for himself, what abides with him in his loneliness and isolation, and what no one can give or take away from him, this is obviously more essential for him than everything that he possesses or what he may be in the eyes of others.”
“I was home schooled starting in seventh grade.”
“It's easier to be with somebody. But it's better to be single if you're with the wrong person.”
“If you're silent for a long time, people just arrive in your mind.”
“You're only lonely if you don't like the person you are alone with.”
“You don't miss your water 'Till your well runs dry.”
“How far away the stars seem, and how far is our first kiss, and ah, how old my heart.”
“A pity beyond all telling is hid in the heart of love.”
“Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.”
“By being seldom seen, I could not stir But like a comet I was wondered at.”
“If thou engrossest all the griefs are thine, Thou robb'st me of a moiety.”
“Have you noticed that only in time of illness or disaster or death are people real? I remember at the time of the wreck-- people were so kind and helpful and solid. Everyone pretended that our lives until that moment had been every bit as real as the moment itself and that the future must be real too, when the truth was that our reality had been purchased only by Lyell's death. In another hour or so we had all faded out again and gone our dim ways.”
“I'm so secluded. Very alone.”
“Solitude is nothing that one can choose or retrain from. We are solitary. We can delude ourselves about this and act as if it were not true. That is all.”
“Perhaps the same bird echoed through both of us yesterday, seperate, in the evening.”
“At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and again it is the best thing in life that each should have everything in himself; his fate, his future, his whole expanse and world.”
“If you ever think you're the only person in the world feeling a certain way, just please know that you're not.”
“That desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love.”
“Some people are born very far from home.”