Loneliness Or Solitude Quotes

Quotes tagged as "loneliness-or-solitude" Showing 1-26 of 26
Michael Wyndham Thomas
“Will turned over the last words for a long time. Then he thought about the flashing message-light up in the kitchen.”
Michael Wyndham Thomas, The Erkeley Shadows

Bangambiki Habyarimana
“People would rather live in a community with unreasonable claims, than face loneliness with their truth”
Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity

Abhaidev
“If the only point of jail is isolation, then I have served a full sentence.”
Abhaidev, The Gods Are Not Dead

Munia Khan
“You will never feel alone, if you run down the stairs of loneliness; as every solitary step becomes your companion.”
Munia Khan

Mika Yamamori
“I'm only remembering unnecessary things because I'm alone.”
Mika Yamamori, Ҥʤ 9 [Hirunaka no Ryuusei 9]

William Faulkner
“Writing is a solitary job--that is, no one can help you with it, bu there's nothing lonely about it. I have always been too busy, too immersed in what I was doing, either mad at it or laughing at it to have time to wonder whether I was lonely or not lonely. It's simply solitary. I think there is a difference between loneliness and solitude.”
William Faulkner at the University of Virginia

Anna LeMind
“Solitude. The very sound of this word is full of thoughtfulness, wisdom, hidden strength, and inner power. Solitude is a state of being alone without being lonely, it is about enjoying your own company.”
Anna LeMind, The Power of Misfits: How to Find Your Place in a World You Dont Fit In

Marilynne Robinson
“Embarrassment, relentless, punitive scorn, can wear away at a soul until it recedes into wordless loneliness.”
Marilynne Robinson, Jack

“I would choose to live a century in a dark room instead of hanging out with fake friends.”
Sher E Yazdan

Jonathan Franzen
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Jonathan Franzen

Jente Posthuma
“To be a natural presence, you shouldn't take up too much space, which I always found easy at the beginning of a friendship. It felt nice to reshape myself into precisely the right format until the moment came, usually once I'd shrunk to my minimum size, when I got moody. I always have to be careful what I say around you, my friends would say. Or if I suddenly lost my temper over something that hadn't previously angered me, they'd say, I don't have enough space for this. Then I would know that my presence was no longer a given and it was all my fault -- it wasn't fair to pretend I was something other than who I really was, to keep shapeshifting like some kind of Barbapapa. I'm either too much or too little. I'm terrible at dispensing the right dose of myself.”
Jente Posthuma, Waar ik liever niet aan denk

Elyse Draper
“Reason has always been obliterated by the sensation of profound solitude, perhaps that is why we replace the aching of isolation with the anguish of abuse.”
Elyse Draper, Ladies and Gentlemen of Horror 2013

Kate Christensen
“I have always felt loneliest in the presence of other people. People I can't connect with. People I feel unseen by. People who make me feel insincere or uncomfortable. For me, loneliness comes from a sense of missing something. I never miss anything when I'm alone.”
Kate Christensen

Octavian Paler
“Singur?tatea e o t?rf? care nu te ?nvinuie?te c? e?ti egoist.”
Octavian Paler, Via?a pe un peron

Melanie Cusick-Jones
“For the first time in his life Faris felt happy and for only the second time in his life he felt hed found a friend, and that was worth being crazy for.”
Melanie Cusick-Jones, Faris and Jack

Matthew Pearl
“Lo giorno se n'andava" - Day was departing..." Dante slows his deliberation as he prepares to enter the infernal realms for the first time: "... e io sol uno" - "and only I alone..." -how lonely he felt! He has to say it three times! io, sol, uno... "m'apparecchiava a sostener la guerra, s del cammino e s de la pietate.”
Matthew Pearl, The Dante Club

Donna Goddard
“It becomes apparent that it would be impossible to feel alone as we are intimately connected to a thriving life-force.”
Donna Goddard, Love, Devotion, and Longing

Anoir Ou-chad
“Solitude is like a sharpener. It makes you rotate against the blade edge shaving away your worn surfaces. Eventually, you come out sharp and dandy.”
Anoir Ou-Chad

Sophia Abid
“Sometimes I wonder how it feels like to be nothing at all
Shattered and lonely, just fearing downfall.
When the world hits you hard, smashes you down,
Where the people you loved are forever gone.
Sometimes I wonder if happiness existed
Sadness would not be any of our business.
Sometimes I wonder if Ill ever feel complete
The negativity to my life will automatically delete.
Sometimes I wonder how it feels like to be nothing at all.
Shattered and lonely, just fearing downfall.”
Sophia Abid, I Wear a Wig

Ruth Baza
“Now, I think that I have been very selfish to appreciate life alone.”
Ruth Baza, La Vida Intermitente

Rifa Coolheart
“There is never a time when being with someone who doesn't value who you truly are is preferable to being by yourself.”
Rifa Coolheart

“Will turned over the last words for a long time.? Then he thought about the flashing message-light up in the kitchen.”
Michael W. Thomas, The Erkeley Shadows

“All human loneliness can be filtered down in one way or another to the singular, tragic element of silence...”
Nettie Magnan, Dropseed: The Story of Three Sad Women

Scott    Gordon
“It was now three a.m., the time when night pushes into morning, your chance at sleep gone, when you feel as if youre the only one awake in the world.”
Scott Gordon, Head Fake