Top 54 Poetry Loneliness Quotes
#1. My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#2. I'm telling you it's cold inside the body that is not the body,
lonesome behind the face
that is certainly not the face
of the person one meant to become.
Denis Johnson
#3. Birth is the start of loneliness and loneliness the start of poetry ...
Erica Jong
#4. I can't sleep alone anymore
and I get used to
company
too quickly. You're always gone too soon.
Charlotte Eriksson
#5. Poems can get
sleepless too
and become
the loneliest thing
in the universe.
Sanober Khan
#6. They don't know I only speak in runaway train stations
and everybody is always a few minutes too late to the platform.
No one has ever gotten the chance to get too close
because it is never romantic to fuck the girl who makes love to her own sadness every single night.
Katelin Wagner
#7. Across the snowy field the barn light gleams - it's the loneliness of November twilight ...
John Geddes
#8. It ... whatever 'it' is, has swallowed me and I lie here in the pit of its cold dark stomach being eaten alive by its bile and I ... I don't even know if I want to be saved.
Kellie Elmore
#9. Sometimes all we need to be able to continue alone
are the dead
rattling the walls
that close us in.
Charles Bukowski
#10. Does it seem strange in the loneliness of the present time, that I run to you? ...
John Geddes
#11. Separation
Your absence has gone through me
Like thread through a needle.
Everything I do is stitched with its color.
W.S. Merwin
#12. When you're young
a pair of
female
high-heeled shoes
just sitting
alone
in the closet
can fire your
bones;
when you're old
it's just
a pair of shoes
without
anybody
in them
and
just as
well.
Charles Bukowski
#13. Everything is all right,
When you're here,
When you're right next to me,
When my hand is in yours,
Don't leave me,
Don't leave me empty handed.
Elizabeth Brooks
#14. There is a loneliness more precious than life. There is a freedom more precious than the world. Infinitely more precious than life and the world is that moment when one is alone with God.
Rumi
#16. People Die ...
Beauty Fades ...
Love Changes ...
And You Will Always Be Alone
L.J.Smith
#17. The sun loved me again when it saw that the stars would not abandon me.
Jenim Dibie
#18. ... and now and then we could look up and give each other a thought,
because I think he could have beautiful thoughts,
and we could just let each other be less lonely in our loneliness.
Charlotte Eriksson
#19. I wish I could see a cherry blossom or a lotus flower. Where could they be?
Susumu Katsumata
#20. Desire, loneliness, wind in the flowering almond
surely these are the great, the inexhaustible subjects
to which my predecessors apprenticed themselves.
I hear them echo in my own heart, disguised as convention.
Louise Gluck
#21. Now gently settles like dust in a shaft - for one moment there is no one else - only the wind like the hiss of an ice skate ...
John Geddes
#22. Here we go mother on the shipless ocean.
Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.
Anne Carson
#23. and sadness clung to me
because she did not know
how to be alone.
AVA.
#24. 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
#26. i could go if i wanted
share the floorboards with someone
in a place less haunted
but i like it here
and i'm happy to stay in this mess on my own
in this home i have built for myself in my bones
Savannah Brown
#27. This morning could have been perfect. The cruel truth is they have never been. Give us loneliness or give us death.
Sean Gabler
#28. A poem is all that's left of my lost loneliness ...
It is like a window that looks into a swimming pool ...
Or an a empty gun indentation in velvet ...
And a baby gazelle given as a gift ...
Chelsey Minnis
#29. Sometimes the rain
falls
just for you and me
to be the violin
playing
in the background
of our loneliness's song.
Sanober Khan
#30. This road is a winding one.
We left the west flooded
with new loneliness.
Donika Kelly
#31. 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
#32. Have I experienced happiness with sufficient gratitude?
Have I endured loneliness with grace?
Mary Oliver
#33.
Who knows what death, anxiety of the living,
Who knows what loneliness, end of the loving
I could say to myself of the love (I had):
Let it not be immortal, since it is flame
But let it be infinite while it lasts.
Vinicius De Moraes
#34. Every avalanche was once a lonely snowflake, every flood was once an aching raindrop.
Jenim Dibie
#35. The most beautiful part of your body
is where it's headed. & remember,
loneliness is still time spent
with the world.
Ocean Vuong
#36. loneliness is a sign you re in desperate need of yourself
Rupi Kaur
#38. One day I will laugh and no loneliness will fall out.
Te' V. Smith
#39. She slammed the door and
was gone.
I looked at the closed door
and at the doorknob
and strangely
I didn't feel
alone.
Charles Bukowski
#40. there is a difference between
loneliness and solitude,
one will empty you and
one will fill you.
you have the power to choose.
AVA.
#41. The poem is lonely. It is lonely and en route. Its author stays with it. Does this very fact not place the poem already here, at its inception, in the encounter, in the mystery of encounter?
Paul Celan
#42. May came home with a smooth round stone
as small as a world and as large as alone.
E. E. Cummings
#43. A strange feeling of loneliness
Adrift near the blue canvas
You may stare long and listen deep
Yet not know whether sea-shore or sea-snore!
Avijeet Das
#44. Though I love your company, your instructions are wasted her. I will always choose the woman who caries me off, I will always sit with the family of loneliness.
Leonard Cohen
#45. ...you hold a poem
that functions half as personal
note and half as telescope
to the heights
awaiting us all.
Kristen Henderson
#46. Loneliness can fly a helicopter through a cut-out shape
of a helicopter the same size as the helicopter
and that's it's only skill
and it isn't good enough
but it's still amazing.
Tao Lin
#47. I expect you to vanish
up and up into the tree,
a shake of the branches
and gone like you
had never happened.
But you came down
and handed me a leaf
"from seven limbs up,
already yellow," you said,
and then you walked away
and you were still real.
Karen Finneyfrock
#48. Thus it had come about that she had read far more fiction, and far more poetry, those two sanctuaries of the lonely, than most of her kind.
John Fowles
#49. What's a rainy day
without some delicious
coffee-flavoured loneliness?
Sanober Khan
#50. Seek me not in your richness, O dear, search not amidst the words talkative. Find me in the moments of loneliness, in the silence of your mighty soul. Within the void of intimate being this is me, the majestic blue - the cessation of all; and here your are in the celestial path.
Preeth Nambiar
#51. There's a book of poetry
in the lines of my hands
that no one wants to read
Holly Schindler
#52. A book,
a book full
of human touches,
of shirts,
a book
without loneliness, with men
and tools,
a book
is victory.
Pablo Neruda
#53. You are alone,
So alone,
You speak back to silence.
People call it loneliness,
You call it solitude,
Different words,
Meaning the same pain.
Jenim Dibie
#54. And not out of fear or loneliness, but only to find myself again ... for we have come too far my Life, to turn back now ...
John Geddes
