3,311 Quotes About Loneliness

Being bored is the price we pay for not being insane.

i felt her absence. it was like waking up one day with no teeth in your mouth. you wouldn't need to run to the mirror to know they were gone

In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people.

Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.

Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.

All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart.

In his face there came to be a brooding peace that is seen most often in the faces of the very sorrowful or the very wise. But still he wandered through the streets of the town, always silent and alone.

People use drugs, legal and illegal, because their lives are intolerably painful or dull. They hate their work and find no rest in their leisure. They are estranged from their families and their neighbors. It should tell us something that in healthy societies drug use is celebrative, convivial, and occasional, whereas among us it is lonely, shameful, and addictive. We need drugs, apparently, because we have lost each other.

I can wade Grief—Whole Pools of it—I'm used to that—But the least push of JoyBreaks up my feet—And I tip—drunken—Let no Pebble—smile—'Twas the New Liquor—That was all!