Loneliness · Skopia

Songs

66

Heartbreak HotelElvis Presley

Heartbreak Hotel

1956★ 9.6

Eleanor Rigby

1966★ 8.9

Dreams (Fleetwood Mac)Fleetwood Mac

Dreams (Fleetwood Mac)

1977★ 8.9

(Sittin' on) the Dock of the Bay

1968★ 8.8

I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry

1949★ 8.5

Waterloo SunsetThe Kinks

Waterloo Sunset

1967★ 8.3

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Quotes

20

The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted, uncared for and deserted by everybody.

1971

★ 7.1

Song · Country music

Hear that lonesome whippoorwill? He sounds too blue to fly. The midnight train is whinin' low, I'm so lonesome I could cry.

I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry · 1949

★ 5.4

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.

Under Western Eyes · 1911

★ 5.3

Under certain circumstances, one nowhere feels as lonely and lost as in the metropolitan crowd.

The Metropolis and Mental Life · 1903

★ 5.1

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Books

6

The Collected Poems

1963★ 8.6

The Little Prince

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

1943★ 8.6

Doctor Zhivago

Boris Pasternak

1957★ 8.4

Kokoro

1914★ 7.0

Of Mice and Men

1937★ 7.0

Housekeeping

Marilynne Robinson

1980★ 6.0

Art

1

The Dance of Life

1900★ 7.1