Lonely Loneliness Quotes

“There is no doubt that solitude is a challenge and to maintain balance within it a precarious business. But I must not forget that, for me, being with people or even with one beloved person for any length of time without solitude is even worse. I lose my center. I feel dispersed, scattered, in pieces. I must have time alone in which to mull over my encounter, and to extract its juice, its essence, to understand what has really happened to me as a consequence of it.”
― May Sarton, Journal of a Solitude

“I'm lonely. I'm lonely because I don't tell people what I need or what I want, and then get hurt when they don't figure it out on their own.”
― Christina Lauren, My Favorite Half-Night Stand

“You shouldn’t have to pretend to be as excited as I am just to make me happy. If it comes to that, you shouldn’t have to pretend to be anything around me. Friends should be real with each other”
― J.M. Richards, Tall, Dark Streak of Lightning

“I Can Be Alone and it's Okay.”
― J.M. Richards, Tall, Dark Streak of Lightning

“Loneliness is lessened when you're lonely by choice.”
― George Jones, I Lived to Tell It All

“I could ask him if he think "a lot" means the same as "too many"...I could tell him that he shouldn't call a girl a slut because someday she might be somebody's mother...maybe she's a slut because she's lonely, she's sad, she's hoping someone or something will make the lonely and sad go away.”
― Diana Joseph, I'm Sorry You Feel That Way: The Astonishing But True Story of a Daughter, Sister, Slut, Wife, Mother, and Friend to Man and Dog

“I had always thought that I was fine with being alone. Halfway through high school, I moved from Brazil to America, and it took me forever to make friends. I had culture shock of virtually every kind, besides which I was awkward, geeky, and shy. So I ate alone, telling myself that it was fine while I watched other people have normal conversations with their friends.”
― J.M. Richards, Tall, Dark Streak of Lightning

“Well, if you can accept that I’m a great big geeky fangirl, then I guess I can accept that you’re a skeptic and a realist.”
― J.M. Richards, Tall, Dark Streak of Lightning

“Those that care for their career, more than their relationship, can find themselves alone.”
― Anthony Liccione

“You will always remain lonely till the day you meet a person who can understand your mind deeply!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Writing is one of the loneliest professions in the world”
― Ika Natassa, The Architecture of Love

“I bundled in my own blanket and reflected on the strange and somewhat unexpected friendship that was slowly developing between Davin and myself. It was clear to me that he needed a friend, but for reasons unknown to me, thought that it was better for him to be alone.”
― J.M. Richards, Tall, Dark Streak of Lightning

“sometimes we are so lonely that we are more ready to fall in love with the concept of a person than the person in itself. Some people are thirsty for life, while others are hungry for love - and a girl who travels will know that there have been people who have fallen in love with her for the wrong reasons”
― lauren klarfeld

“Feeling lonely in a crowd is much worse than feeling lonely when you're alone!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“What was this pain' She thought, adding herself into the thoughts, as her tears seemed to fall through louder than her own actions.”
― -Sophia Celsia

“No better school invented yet than the school of loneliness in the matters of understanding our deep-self!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Make friends with the path you are travelling on; then, you feel less lonely”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“If you stop being afraid of lonely you will never feel lonely because courage will give you the necessary self-confidence to solve this problem!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Si mi oído alcanzara todos los rumores del mundo, yo percibiría sus pasos. Ojalá me lleve a un lugar con menos galerías y menos puertas. ¿Cómo será mi redentor?, me pregunto. ¿Será un toro o un hombre? ¿Será tal vez un toro con cara de hombre? ¿O será como yo?”
― Jorge Luis Borges, El Aleph: cuento

“One of the best lessons you can learn in life is
how to be alone, and that being alone is not
loneliness.”
― Lidia Longorio, Hey Humanity

“Let alone be a word alone.”
― Kynna Claire

“If you are someone whose soul gets suffocated even in short-term crowds, even long-term loneliness will not leave painful traces in your soul!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Time spent in the company of others is very therapeutic, while time spent brooding alone only increases a feeling of separation.”
― Ryan Gosling