82 quotes found
“Absence makes the heart grow fonder, but it sure makes the rest of you lonely.”
“For Beatrice, when we first met, I was lonely, and you were pretty.Now I am pretty lonely.”
“I missed him so much that it felt like a physical pain in the area below my ribs. I opened my mouth to accommodate it. I put my hand to it. A hollow, aching, piercing place.”
“I learned that day that there is no more lonely state than being in a lonely marriage.”
“We're always contradicting ourselves.We want people to tell us apart.......yet we don't want them to be able to.We want people to get to know us......but we also want them to keep their distance.We...”
“Words used to be all I had. Now even they have deserted me.”
“O youcant tell someone just how lonely he is”
“Later, when we've found this mysterious ship of Hector's and are safely away, when I have time to rest and worry and a quiet corner to hide in, I will coldly remember that being a queen means being...”
“No one else, but the silence of the night cried with me”
“But for the first time, Boaz couldn't think of a single word to describe this kind of loneliness, so scary and real it required an entirely different language, new and strange and yet to be invented”
“Such people, while useful, even agreeable, to others, are, if truth be told, frequently unhappylonely in fact. Yes, they seek out others, and it may even seem to them that in a certain country or c...”
“He looked down at me without recognition, and I realized with a little stab of anxiety that he must have forgotten all about me, perhaps for some considerable time, and that he himself was so lost ...”
“Have you ever been lonely? No, neither have I. Solitary, yes. Alone, certainly. But lonely means minding about being on your own. I've never minded about it.”
“I find a certain degree of loneliness not only tolerable but deeply pleasurable.”
“Silent people are those who have too much to say”
“Writing is such a lonely work that I try to keep myself cheered up.”
“But a mother-son relationship is not a coequal one, is it? He is lonely with only you just as you are lonely with only him.”
“A lonely night is more profound then lonesome nights.”
“Such was the case with most unhappy students; they avoided even one another, so intent on their own unhappiness they failed to notice the other lost souls around them.”
“Im jealous not of their money to spend, but jealous that, for them, going home is a simple matter of turning down the correct lane.”
