There is no living being on earth at this moment except myself. I could walk down the halls, and empty rooms would yawn mockingly at me from every side. God, but life is loneliness, despite all the opiates, despite the shrill tinsel gaiety of 'partie...
Loneliness, dejection, the contempt or pity of people around you--these are unpleasant feelings. But they are precisely the things that produce genuine Dark Ones.
Loneliness is like being the only person left alive in the universe, except that everyone else is still here.
The loneliness of command had made Eisenhower emotionally self-sufficient.
Thirty--the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.
I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others--young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life.
You do not have to be alone. The world never inflicts loneliness upon us. That is something we choose or reject by ourselves.
It would do the world good if every man would compel himself occasionally to be absolutely alone. Most of the world s progress has come out of such loneliness.
Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.
I've also seen that great men are often lonely. This is understandable, because they have built such high standards for themselves that they often feel alone. But that same loneliness is part of their ability to create.
For a second, two seconds, they had exchanged an equivocal glance, and that was the end of the story. But even that was a memorable event, in the locked loneliness in which one had to live.
Like all strong people, she suffered always a measure of loneliness; she was a marginal outsider, a secret infidel of a certain sort.
There comes a point where you become tired of the loneliness and need a human touch, a caress to make you realize you still exist as a person.
If loneliness was a choice, what was the other option? To settle for second-best and try to be happy with that? And was that fair to the person you settled for?
He is one of those who has had the wilderness for a pillow, and called a star his brother. Alone. But loneliness can be a communion.
My fear of loneliness is like a disease.
But the more people we love and the more deeply we love them, the more vulnerable we are to loss and grief and loneliness.
there is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock
Loneliness is a state of feeling that can be changed. People may still feel lonely even among the crowd.
Loneliness why do you accompany me if I wish to be alone?
Is this how it is for a species that senses it is going extinct? Is there a feeling of loneliness, or unease, each morning, upon awakening?
