Top 100 My Loneliness Quotes
#1. The essential reason for my loneliness is that I don't even know where I belong.
Orhan Pamuk
#2. I hurled my fear and my loneliness, my love and my respect, my rage and my pain. I made of my thoughts a hammer, infused with the fires of creation and tempered in the icy power of the darkest guardian the earth had ever known.
Jim Butcher
#3. My loneliness turned itself inside out and I grew myself a kind of perverse pride.
Phyllis Gotlieb
#5. The world has become lovelier. I am alone, and I don't suffer from my loneliness. I don't want life to be anything other than what it is. I am ready to let myself be baked in the sun till I am done. I am eager to ripen. I am ready to die, ready to be born again. The world has become lovelier.
Hermann Hesse
#7. But I needed to build up my loneliness tolerance, was all. The loneliness became like a friend, my constant companion. I could depend on it, and only it.
Jessica Knoll
#8. Come to me, squeeze my hand, know my loneliness, and give me the love, the strength to prevail on the perilous road before me.
Dang Thuy Tram
#9. I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.
Jorge Luis Borges
#10. the liquor aiding the shorthand of my loneliness. It was strange that I could feel differently so easily, that there was a sure way to soften the crud of my own sadness.
Emma Cline
#11. You Stole my loneliness. I may have given you wings, but you've become my gravity. I'll never be free of your force.
Pepper Winters
#13. I confided again that I wanted him, I wanted him to share my loneliness. I wanted him to share all that I could teach and give. Oh, the pain of it! All that I could teach and give.
Anne Rice
#14. I must conquer my loneliness alone. I must be happy with myself or I have nothing to offer you. Two halves have little choice but to join; and yes, they do make a whole. But two wholes when they coincide ... that is beauty. That is love ...
Peter McWilliams
#15. I love my loneliness as you do love your virginity.
M.F. Moonzajer
#16. Having no travelling companion brings back all the feelings of loneliness that I've fought so hard to overcome. Being on my own, away from the safety of my home, makes my loneliness levels soar.
Jennifer Page
#17. I wish I were not quite so lonely - and so poor. And yet I love both my loneliness and my poverty. The former makes me appreciate the companionship of the wind and rain, while the latter preserves my liver and prevents me wasting time in dancing attendance upon women.
Algernon Blackwood
#18. A lot of people think that my work is about mocking or making fun of things, but a lot of it is about discomfort and making myself as uncomfortable as the men feel, or putting myself in a situation where I'm revealing my loneliness as much as they're revealing theirs.
Laurel Nakadate
#19. I was born on a tiny cot in southwestern Massachusetts during World War II. A sickly child, I turned to photography to overcome my loneliness and isolation.
William Wegman
#20. Music eliminates my gravity. When I'm singing, I'm a ravenous pterodactyl. I'm alive and free and hungry, and I know who I am. But the flood is coming; it's weighing me down, making me prisoner to my loneliness and pain.
-character Joanna (Broken)
J. Matthew Nespoli
#21. He raised himself above her pallid face and kissed her on both closed eyes and thought: she thinks she is taking and does not know that she is giving; in her loneliness she has fled to me and does not suspect my loneliness.
Hermann Hesse
#22. Acting is the greatest answer to my loneliness that I have found.
Claire Danes
#23. The winter light, tinted by the bright colors in the street, plays on the go-board. All these festivities cut me off from the rest of the world. My loneliness is like a bolt of crimson silk stowed in the bottom of a wooden chest.
Shan Sa
#24. Letting myself fall wasn't easy. It wasn't hard either. It was a calling that I had to honour. I did honour. I took a plunge into my dark abyss. I faced my grief, my fear, my sadness, my loneliness, my anguish, myself. (Page 78)
Neena Verma
#25. I, however, cannot force myself to use "meat drugs" to cheat on my loneliness.
Franz Kafka
#26. It's so kind of you to want to visit me in my loneliness. - The Wicked Witch of the West. Now I know I have a heart, because it's breaking. - The Tin Woodsman Hearts will never be practical until they can be made unbreakable.
L. Frank Baum
#27. My art takes birth when my loneliness becomes my companion ... when I take lives and deaths much personally and work when others play. When I meet myself and find that the truth of life is not the dream of tender age ... but the fire within me that creates the work of art.
Jeet Aulakh
#28. My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues.
Kahlil Gibran
#29. So therefore I dedicate myself, to my art, my sleep, my dreams, my labors, my suffrances, my loneliness, my unique madness, my endless absorption and hunger because I cannot dedicate myself to any fellow being.
Jack Kerouac
#30. Some of these walls had been of my own making; my rebellion, my resistance; my arrogance, my need for control. Some had been built around me by the misfortunes of life; my loneliness; my orphaned heart; my fear of rejection. I had kept God at bay, and cheated myself of the warmth of His mercy.
Tessa Afshar
#31. Why do I write? It's not that I want people to think I am smart, or even that I am a good writer. I write because I want to end my loneliness.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#32. I have been trying, for some time now, to find dignity in my loneliness. I have been finding this hard to do. 72.
Maggie Nelson
#33. Leave my loneliness unbroken! - quit the bust above my door!
Edgar Allan Poe
#34. I love my loneliness as it helps me gather strength to deal with people.
Amit Abraham
#35. And my loneliness, always my loneliness - that airless bubble of despair that is slowing stifling me.
Tabitha Suzuma
#36. Because they saved me from myself, they rescued me from my loneliness. They were the first to accept me for who I am. They're my friends.
-Naruto Uzumaki
Masashi Kishimoto
#37. I was finished with assuming the best intentions of those who abandoned me, done trying to assuage my loneliness in barren places.
Saleem Haddad
#38. My peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication
it makes them sociable.
I, however, cannot force myself to
use drugs to cheat on my loneliness
it is all that I have
and when the drugs and alcohol dissipate, will be all that my peers have as well.
Franz Kafka
#39. I felt lonely, and in full possession of my loneliness. It was the first time I had owned anything of value.
Ben Greenman
#40. My past lives alone. That's why my loneliness wants to live in the past
Munia Khan
#41. I write because I want to end my loneliness. Books make people less alone. That, before and after everything else, is what books do. They show us that conversations are possible across distances.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#42. I would like to be with you, but I do love my loneliness too.
M.F. Moonzajer
#43. I diagnosed my loneliness as premature empty nest syndrome.
Kristen Schaal
#44. I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don't know why, some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness. In reality those who satisfy me are those who simply allow me to live with my 'idea of them.
Anais Nin
#46. My loneliness was an important part of my own little universe, not some pathological disease that needs to be gotten [sic] rid of.
Banana Yoshimoto
#47. This afternoon the pain occasioned by my loneliness came upon me so piercingly and intensely that I became aware that the strength which I gain through this writing thus spends itself, a strength which I certainly have not intended for this purpose.
Franz Kafka
#48. His smile banished my loneliness and limbed the hollows of my anema with starlight, pure and bright...his touch hummed in my bones like an aria -- a song to my dance, a beginning of a promise.
Roshani Chokshi
#49. I am never lonely, Galahad. Or rather I never suffer from loneliness. I suffer much from the idea that my loneliness might be taken away from me by a lot of mercilessly well-meaning people.
Leonora Carrington
#50. My loneliness is not
By the presence or absence of people;
On the contrary, I hate who steals my loneliness,
Without, in exchange, offer me a real company
Friedrich Nietzsche
#51. Maybe true love isn't out there for me, but I can sublimate my loneliness with the notion that true love is out there for someone.
Roxane Gay
#54. Was I happier there in my loneliness
Henri Cole
#55. I'm learning to deal with my loneliness because then nobody can muck me around any more.
Amanda Eliasch
#56. I felt alone, my loneliness suffocated me, and I craved to scream, shout and kill me while seeing all this. However, self-hatred also occupied me.
Shaikh Ashraf
#57. The tender breeze felt my loneliness. It brought me your fragrance.
Avijeet Das
#58. I heard the breeze whisper your name to the trees. And the flowers giggled smiling at the leaves. I and my loneliness keep talking about you.
Avijeet Das
#59. Since I love you, my loneliness begins to throw you.
Jean Giraudoux
#60. I'm supposed to be, I am an artist. Yes, I'm lonely. But I'm married to my loneliness.
Lady Gaga
#61. Her solitary nature means she needs a family to keep her from loneliness my gregarious nature means I will never have to worry about being alone ...
Elizabeth Gilbert
#62. 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
#63. "I fly from pleasure," said the prince, "because pleasure has ceased to please; I am lonely because I am miserable, and am unwilling to cloud with my presence the happiness of others."
Samuel Johnson
#64. What I feared most, though, about my decision to remain celibate was that I had thereby doomed myself to lifelong loneliness.
Wesley Hill
#65. And the world suddenly appeared to me as such an awfully large place, with I so totally alone in it that I could have cried from the bottom of my heart.
Joseph Von Eichendorff
#66. I'll be honest with you. I'm a little bit of a loner. It's been a big part of my maturing process to learn to allow people to support me. I tend to be very self-reliant and private. And I have this history of wanting to work things out on my own and protect people from what's going on with me.
Kerry Washington
#67. Solitude that throws the honest rays of perfect euphoria;
Solitude that makes me breathe in the real me;
Solitude I call it - my abode, my self made haven;
Solitude I call it - the sanguine face of Loneliness.
Debatrayee Banerjee
#68. I can't take the anger, the loneliness, the pain any longer. I sink to my knees. Everything wrong with my life swells in a rush of emotion.
Holly S. Roberts
#69. Sometimes I sit and stare out at the people walking by, wondering if they've felt as I've felt, trapped, alone, but guiltily content in the knowledge that I will never know another's thoughts, and therefore can feel special due to my unique loneliness.
Moryah DeMott
#70. I need the pain of loneliness to make my imagination work.
Orhan Pamuk
#71. I entered my small loft with its chronic undertow of loneliness
Anonymous
#72. The train blows through town
delivering reality,
slapping my face and screaming,
"You are alone"
Rose colored memories drown,
taking their last breath.
Kellie Elmore
#73. Loneliness of heart
In the still of the night my heart doth cry out, who can hear it for time is far spent. In the darkness in the shadow of the depth I find isolation and fear ...
M.I. Ghostwriter
#75. But in spite of my great desire for intimacy, I've always been a loner. Perhaps when the longing for connection is as strong as it is in me, when the desire is for something so deep and true, one knows better than to try. One sees that this is not the place for that.
Elizabeth Berg
#76. I think of drug dealers like I think of my father - never really there when you want them to be.
Kris Kidd
#77. I can't cure anyone. I can't guarantee they will heal. I can only tell them my story, remind them that they are not alone in their journey and offer a glimmer of hope for healing.
Sharon E. Rainey
#78. Frankie," she said softly, "do you know what my idea of heaven is? A place where the windows are always clean, and the people I want can always come to dinner.
Helen Hudson
#80. I also believe that introversion is my greatest strength. I have such a strong inner life that I'm never bored and only occasionally lonely. No matter what mayhem is happening around me, I know I can always turn inward.
Susan Cain
#81. A cold sense of desolation lodged itself somewhere in the base of my throat, and suddenly I was no longer enraged or devastated, but terrified of the immense, throbbing loneliness that was only now closing like a vise on my internal organs.
Anonymous
#82. Maybe loneliness was imprinted in my genes, lying dormant for years but now coming into full bloom.
Karen Thompson Walker
#83. I think I'll feel out of place wherever I go on earth, forever. But that's fine. I have to make my peace with that.
Laura Marling
#84. I CAN'T GO ON! I FEEL LIKE NONE OF MY EMOTIONAL WOUNDS CAN HEAL! AS SOON AS IT TRIES TO HEAL, IT SHATTERS AGAIN! I CAN'T HEAL!
Shine
#85. When the pace of our feet matched perfectly, I felt a deep inner pang of satisfaction. I could have gone on walking like that forever, side by side with him. There had been few times in my life I had ever inhabited a moment so fully, with no loneliness lurking at the edges.
Lisa Kleypas
#86. I HIDE myself within my flower
That wearing on your breast,
You, unsuspecting, wear me too
And angels know the rest.
I hide myself within my flower,
That, fading from your vase,
You, unsuspecting, feel for me
Almost a loneliness ...
Emily Dickinson
#87. As much as we complain about it, though, there's part of us that is drawn to a hurried life. It makes us feel important. It keeps the adrenaline pumping. It means I don't have to look too closely at my heart or life. It keeps us from feeling our loneliness.
John Ortberg
#88. Most of my life I have needed more time to be on my own.
P.D. James
#89. My characters are quite as real to me as so-called real people; which is one reason why I'm not subject to what is known as loneliness. I have plenty of company.
William S. Burroughs
#90. One thing became crystal clear to me when I couldn't see you anymore. I realized that the only way I had been able to survive until then was having you in my life. When I lost you, the pain and loneliness really got to me.
Haruki Murakami
#91. I am taking this in, slowly,
Taking it into my body.
This grief. How slow
The body is to realize
You are never coming back.
Donna Masini
#92. I've never been afraid of being alone. For the sake of my work, I must be!
Ochiai Naoyuki
#93. I pursued happiness all my life. When she appeared in my arma, i grew too fond of loneliness and sorrow to understand. I almost chased her away out of fear
Snailords
#94. When the chips are down, you are alone, and loneliness can be terrifying. Fortunately, I've always had a chum I could call. And I love to be alone. It doesn't bother me one bit. I'm my own company.
Audrey Hepburn
#95. Will I really be able to accept my mental loneliness?
Anais Nin
#96. What I had always loved most about literature was the way it eased my own loneliness. Even
Rufi Thorpe
#97. Sometimes in utter hopelessness I put my cheek on the table like it was someone. I wanted to wake my brain up and be loved.
Eileen Myles
#98. Behind this smile in my face
Lies the dark shadow of emptiness
Hiding from your eyes within my gaze
Concealed with sham happiness.
Alexia Chase
#99. They come upon me all silent and menacing like Pinkerton Detectives, and they flank me - Depression on my left, Loneliness on my right.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#100. But then there's loneliness. However you might philosophise about it, loneliness is a terrible thing, my dear fellow ... Although in reality, of course, it's absolutely of no importance!
Anton Chekhov
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