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Chris McCandless1 quote
Some people feel like they don't deserve love. They walk away quietly into empty spaces, trying to close the gaps of the past. — Chris McCandless · 2007Fred Rogers1 quote
Solitude is different from loneliness, and it doesn't have to be a lonely kind of thing. — Fred Rogers · 2003Georg Simmel1 quote
Under certain circumstances, one nowhere feels as lonely and lost as in the metropolitan crowd. — Georg Simmel · 1903Hank Williams1 quote
Hear that lonesome whippoorwill?
He sounds too blue to fly.
The midnight train is whinin' low,
I'm so lonesome I could cry. — Hank Williams · 1949Haruki Murakami1 quote
Why do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness? — Haruki Murakami · 1999John Milton1 quote
In solitude
What happiness? who can enjoy alone,
Or all enjoying, what contentment find? — John Milton · 1667Joseph Conrad1 quote
Who knows what true loneliness is—not the conventional word, but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion. Now and then a fatal conjunction of events may lift the veil for an instant. For an instant only. No human being could bear a steady view of moral solitude without going mad. — Joseph Conrad · 1911Lord Byron1 quote
What is the worst of woes that wait on age?
What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow?
To view each loved one blotted from life's page,
And be alone on earth, as I am now. — Lord Byron · 1818Mark Twain1 quote
Be good and you will be lonesome. — Mark Twain · 1897Mother Teresa1 quote
The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted, uncared for and deserted by everybody. — Mother Teresa · 1971Nathaniel Hawthorne1 quote
My heart was a habitation large enough for many guests, but lonely and chill, and without a household fire. I longed to kindle one! It seemed not so wild a dream. — Nathaniel Hawthorne · 1850Nicholas Breton1 quote
I wish my deadly foe, no worse
Than want of friends, and empty purse. — Nicholas Breton · 1577Roy Orbison1 quote
Only the lonely (know the way I feel). — Roy Orbison · 1960Ryan Bingham1 quote
If you think about it, your favorite memories, the most important moments in your life, were you alone?... Life's better with company. — Ryan Bingham · 2009Samuel Taylor Coleridge1 quote
Alone, alone, all, all alone,
Alone on a wide wide sea! — Samuel Taylor Coleridge · 1798The Beatles1 quote
All the lonely people,
Where do they all come from?
All the lonely people,
Where do they all belong? — The Beatles · 1966Toni Morrison1 quote
There is a loneliness that can be rocked. Arms crossed, knees drawn up, holding, holding on, this motion, unlike a ship's, smooths and contains the rocker. It's an inside kind-wrapped tight like skin. Then there is the loneliness that roams. No rocking can hold it down. It is alive. On its own. A dry and spreading thing that makes the sound of one's own feet going seem to come from a far-off place. — Toni Morrison · 1987Uncle Pio1 quote
It is so crowded and yet so lonely, isn't it? — Uncle Pio · 1946Willa Cather1 quote
Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family-but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything. — Willa Cather · 1931William Wordsworth1 quote
I wandered lonely as a cloud. — William Wordsworth · 1804