Quotes about Loneliness

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All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart. — Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me
sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love — Gabriel García Márquez
Are you upset little friend? Have you been lying awake worrying? Well, don't worry...I'm here. The flood waters will rec — Charles M. Schulz
It is an absolute human certainty that no one can know his own beauty or perceive a sense of his own worth until it has — John Joseph Powell, The Secret of Staying in Love
I'm tired of living unable to love anyone. I don't have a single friend - not one. And, worst of all, I can't even love — Haruki Murakami, 1Q84
That’s love: Two lonely persons keep each other safe and touch each other and talk to each other. — Rainer Maria Rilke
Sometimes I get real lonely sleeping with you. — Haruki Murakami, A Wild Sheep Chase
How could I have been so ignorant? she thinks. So stupid, so unseeing, so given over to carelessness. But without such i — Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin
People accuse me of falling in love easily. It just means that I'm able to see the beauty in most of the people who cros — Ashly Lorenzana
People Die...Beauty Fades...Love Changes...And You Will Always Be Alone — L.J. Smith, Night World, No. 3
If loneliness was a choice, what was the other option? To settle for second-best and try to be happy with that? And was — Lisa Kleypas, Sugar Daddy
The strength of a love is always misjudged if we evaluate it by its immediate cause and not the stress that went before — Stefan Zweig, The Burning Secret and other stories
We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with commun — Dorothy Day, The Long Loneliness: The Autobiography of the Legendary Catholic Social Activist
I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don’t know why, some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness. — Anaïs Nin
...and you drink a little too much and try a little too hard. And you go home to a cold bed and think, 'That was fine'. — Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl
But many of us seek community solely to escape the fear of being alone. Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art — bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions
Oh to have you with me, to have you here, not to be alone, but to be with you, my beauty, you of all souls! You. — Anne Rice, Pandora
Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony. — Douglas Coupland, Shampoo Planet
Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying. — Arthur C. Clarke
Nobody likes being alone that much. I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all. It just leads to disappointmen — Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood