774 quotes found
“That’s love: Two lonely persons keep each other safe and touch each other and talk to each other.”
“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?”
“On I’ll pass,dragging my huge love behind me.On whatfeverish night, deliria-ridden,by what Goliaths was I begot – I, so bigand by no one needed?”
“We are not defined by our individual loneliness, but by the web of relationships in which we’re enmeshed.”
“Like any / unloved thing, I don’t know if I’m real /when I’m not being touched.”
“Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.”
“People cannot win against their loneliness because loneliness is this world’s worst kind of pain.”
“Everyone’s searching for someone to end the pain of loneliness. Even the darkest of souls wants a shot at redemption.”
“Then, as tonight, he had felt lonely, but soon had learnt the bounty of such loneliness. The music had breathed to him its message, to him alone amongst these ordinary folk, whispered its gentle se...”
“Solitude is fine but you need someone to tell that solitude is fine.”
“The old gal was only another lonely creature in a world that didn’t care”
“She was stronger alone…”
“Words are loneliness.”
“...until that moment I had not understood that this was a story about lonely people, about absence and loss, and that that was why I had taken refuge in it until it became confused with my own life...”
“She had learnt a painful lesson, she thought – that as they die, the ones we love, we lose our witnesses, our watchers, those who know and understand the tiny little meaningless patterns, those wor...”
“I'm lonely. And I'm lonely in some horribly deep way and for a flash of an instant, I can see just how lonely, and how deep this feeling runs. And it scares the shit out of me to be this lonely bec...”
“That was the day my whole world went black. Air looked black. Sun looked black. I laid up in bed and stared at the black walls of my house….Took three months before I even looked out the window, se...”
“Love will not come to me again. I’ll vegetate like a plant in a cellar, without light.”
“But there was something terrifying taking over her thoughts, and it wouldn't leave. Out of seven billion sharing the planet with her, not one of them knew what was going through her head. Not one o...”
“Missing someone is the reverberating echo of everything beautiful about her—her laugh, her song, her touch, her smell, the power of her words, and the constant shadow that lingers on as her perfect...”
