Loneliness Quotes

The price of being a sheep is boredom. The price of being a wolf is loneliness. Choose one or the other with great care.

It profiteth a man more to discuss one hour with his equals than to study one day on his own.

The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.

Many people need desperately to receive this message: 'I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.

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

After four years of Freudian analysis I realized I had written Solitary Man about myself.

Before you meet yourself, you need to "peel your crust" so you can get to the core. And there is no loneliness there. Strength is in there. All that is left for a man is to believe in his own enormous power!

She would buy magic every day of the week. Love me, that face said. I’m so lonely, so desperate. I’ll give you whatever you want.

She would buy magic every day of the week. Love me, that face said. I’m so lonely, so desperate. I’ll give you whatever you want.

If you are lonely when you are alone, you are in bad company.

When she talks about her life, [she] can make it sound as though, beneath a fragile veneer of confidence, she has spent a long time flailing to catch on to the kind of everyday knowledge that she felt everyone else just seemed to know.

A one way relationship is like a one handed hand shake--feels just as lonely

I have nothing now but praise for my life. I'm not unhappy. I cry a lot because I miss people. They die and I can't stop them. They leave me and I love them more. ... What I dread is the isolation. ... There are so many beautiful things in the world which I will have to leave when I die, but I'm ready, I'm ready, I'm ready.

I have stepped off the relationship scene to come to terms with myself. I have spent most of my adult life being 'someone's girlfriend', and now I am happy being single.

I can't even find someone for a platonic relationship, much less the kind where someone wants to see me naked.

If you’ve ever had that feeling of loneliness, of being an outsider, it never quite leaves you. You can be happy or successful or whatever, but that thing still stays within you.

If you never take it seriously, you never get hurt. If you never get hurt, you always have fun. And if you ever get lonely, you just go to the record store and visit your friends.

I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.

To those who can dream, there is no such place as faraway.

So I wait for you like a lonely house till you will see me again and live in me. Till then my windows will ache.