Escape Loneliness Quotes

#1. Fatigue dulls the pain, but awakes enticing thoughts of death. So! that is the way in which you are tempted to overcome your loneliness
by making the ultimate escape from life.
No! It may be that death is to be your ultimate gift to life: it must not be an act of treachery against it.

Dag Hammarskjold

#2. I spent the rest of the day in someone else's story. The rare moments that I put the book down, my own pain returned in burning stabs.

Amy Plum

#3. The moon distresses you by silently reminding you of your solitude; you open your eyes wide to escape your loneliness.

Yann Martel

#4. And the smoke that creeps off the tip of my cigarette and into the dim, scattered strands of light leaking off the moon, in through the clefts in the curtains, is much like my spirit trying to escape the burn of yesterday's presence.

Kellie Elmore

#5. No, I won't try to escape myself by losing myself in artificial chatter 'Did you have a nice vacation?' 'Oh, yes, and you?' I'll stay here and try to pin that loneliness down.

Sylvia Plath

#6. Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.

Bertrand Russell

#7. Real love is not an escape from loneliness, real love is an overflowing aloneness. One is so happy in being alone that one wud like to share.

Rajneesh

#8. can we find a way of living in which we don't use another, psychologically, emotionally, not depend on another, not use another as a means of escape from our own tortures, from our own despairs, from our own loneliness? To

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#9. This Midwestern sky is the nakedest loneliest sky in America. To escape it, people live inside and underground.

Walker Percy

#10. Addiction to knowledge is like any other addiction; it offers an escape from the fear of emptiness, of loneliness, of frustration, the fear of being nothing. The

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#11. Sometimes it was hard to breathe, knowing how small my world could be. Maybe in San Francisco it wouldn't feel like the universe was conspiring to keep me in a bubble.

Heather Demetrios

#12. I remember my grandfather telling me how each of us must live with a
full measure of loneliness that is inescapable, and we must not destroy
ourselves with our passion to escape the aloneness.

Jim Harrison

#13. Their isolation was communal," he wrote. "They could escape neither their loneliness nor each other.

Wayne Curtis

#14. What is hell? Hell is oneself.
Hell is alone, the other figures in it
Merely projections. There is nothing to escape from
And nothing to escape to. One is always alone.

T. S. Eliot

#15. I called no one, and no one called me. I was suffocating with loneliness. The pain was almost physical. I felt like tearing myself apart. I wanted to escape from my own skin.

Cat Clarke

#16. Loneliness - since I was trying to escape it - was hell; and yet for the hermit who seeks it, it is apparently happiness.

Kobo Abe

#17. The only way to escape the feeling of loneliness is to just be silent

Sonya Withrow

#18. This is what it means to be alone: everyone is connected to everyone else, their bodies are a bright liquid life flowing around you, sharing a single heart that drives them to move all together. If the shark comes they will all escape, and leave you to be eaten.

Barbara Kingsolver

#19. We lived in a small house, so there was no escape from the goddamn racket of her loneliness.

Sherman Alexie

#20. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as an escape.

Bell Hooks

#21. But when she finally got the wings to fly she realized she had nowhere else to go to ...

Sanhita Baruah

#22. Together we were something less, which felt like such a relief, to not be ourselves for a while.

Ben Marcus