It's very lonely bringing up a child on your own. - Diane Abbott A world that was crowded with people could still be a very lonely place. - Jodi Picoult ...I can't help seeing that you are very lonely, and sometimes there is a hungry look in your eyes that goes to my heart. - Louisa May Alcott For me, making films is about trying to work something out by myself in quite a lonely way. I find the whole thing very lonely really. - Andrea Arnold Well, I know about loneliness. I won't talk about it, but I was very lonely after the war. I know what it feels like to spend a whole weekend all by yourself and no one wants you at all. - Charles M Schulz It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Maybe you think you'll be entitled to more happiness later by forgoing all of it now, but it doesn't work that way. Happiness takes as much practice as unhappiness does. It's by living that you live more. By waiting you wait more. Every waiting...

You have never felt the weight of disappointing love or of failing to live up to expectations. The only thing you've ever been is lonely by yourself-you have no idea how desperate it is to be lonely in the midst of people who love you, and whom you would have done anything to make happy. - Alma Alexander I didn't think I was in a morbid mood, but it appears I am. My mind goes round and round trying to figure things out, but I always come back to the same two things: Loneliness and Death. Life ends before we figure anything out, most importantly how not to be lonely. Solitude is fine. But feeling like you have no one to love - abject lonliness - is not alright. - Jonathan Ames I can hazard a guess, but I'll never know/ Why you put these walls up, I can't get through/It's as though you want to be lonely and blue. - Melina Marchetta Dear Lord,' he said. 'let me be like Aron. Don't make me mean. I don't want to be. If you will let everybody like me, ...

You know what I noticed when I was with Jacob? In your world, people can reach each other in an instant. There's the telephone, and the fax - and on the computer you can talk to someone all the way around the world. You've got people telling their secrets on TV talk shows, and magazines that publish pictures of movie stars trying to hide their homes. All those connections, but everyone there seems so lonely. - Jodi Picoult Did you ever walk through a room that's packed with people, and feel so lonely you can hardly take the next step? - Jodi Picoult And it feels strange, almost sad, to walk through ther empty halls. Each step I take sounds so lonely. - Jay Asher The feeling that we are all neglected and lonely but not so lonely that "others" do not see us in trouble, saves us from the worst suffering. - Albert Camus I have the best roommates in the world! It creates a fun sense of family... and that's really important to me. Things can get so lonely witho...

Only the lonely, who can teach us, to not ambiguous. - Emha Ainun Nadjib Only the lonely know the way I feel tonight. - Roy Orbison

They sat on a park bench, held hands, and told each other their stories hour after hour. They were not lonely anymore. They had found and been found by their 100% perfect other. What a wonderful thing it is to find and be found by your 100% perfect other. It's a miracle, a cosmic miracle. - Haruki Murakami You can't divorce Margo the person from Margo the body. You can't see one without seeing the other. You looked at Margo's eyes and you saw both their blueness and their Margo-ness. In the end, you could not say that Margo Roth Spiegelman was fat, or that she was skinny, any more than you can say that the Eiffel Tower is or is not lonely. Margo's beauty was a kind of sealed vessel of perfection uncracked and uncrackable. - John Green That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong. - F Scott Fitzgerald That is part of the beauty of literature. ...

Often a man wishes to be alone and a girl wishes to be alone too and if they love each other they are jealous of that in each other, but I can truly say we never felt that. We could feel alone when we were together, alone against the others. But we were never lonely and never afraid when we were together. - Ernest Hemingway As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them. - Maya Angelou What's the best part of being in Hermes cabin? Connor: You are never lonely. I mean seriously, new kids are always coming in. So you always have someone to talk to. Travis: Or prank. Connor: Or pickpocket. One big happy family. - Rick Riordan Knowing now I would never be alone again never lonely again as in those years God allowed me to be thus as if He did not exist forcing onto me the bitter knowledge that He did not exist in truth or if He did His existence touched in no way upon my own. - Joyce Ca...

I'm very social, and in a place like New York, even if you're alone on the subway, you never feel lonely. - Ana Gasteyer I've always lived in a city. I'm very social, and in a place like New York, even if you're alone on the subway, you never feel lonely. - Ana Gasteyer

I'm not getting it all sorted, she worried. I'm not getting it right. You are brilliant, the Voice reassured her. It is imperfect. So are all things trapped in time. You are brilliant, nonetheless. How fortunate for Us that We thirst for glorious souls rather than faultless ones, or We should be parched indeed, and most lonely in Our perfect righteousness. Carry on imperfectly, shining Ista. - Lois Mcmaster Bujold Hey, Hank, I notice all the women around your place lately... good looking stuff; you're doing all right." "Sam," I say, "that's not true; I am one of God's most lonely men. - Charles Bukowski Love at first sight is not complicated. In our dreams we build a woman, we give her life from our own life, and then we have to wait. Through trial and error we try to find that nameless ghost that's haunting our most lonely of nights. And I felt as if I had found what I was looking for. Finally, my ghost had a name and a face. - Cristian ...

I have the best roommates in the world! It creates a fun sense of family... and that's really important to me. Things can get so lonely without it. - Kristen Bell [O]n general principles it is best that I should not leave the country. Scotland Yard feels lonely without me, and it causes an unhealthy excitement among the criminal classes. - Arthur Conan Doyle I canna look at ye asleep without wanting to wake ye, Sassenach." His hand cupped my breast, gently now. "I suppose I find myself lonely without ye. - Diana Gabaldon Some say," Scytale said, "that people cling to Imperial leadership because space is infinite. They feel lonely without a unifying symbol. For a lonely people, the Emperor is a definite place. They can turn toward him and say: 'See, there He is. He makes us one.' Perhaps religion serves the same purpose, m'Lord. - Frank Herbert I feel strangely free at such times. To behave properly is to be always courteous, always clever, and s...

My boots were so heavy that I was glad there was a column beneath us. How could such a lonely person have been living so close to me my whole life? If I had known, I would have gone up to keep him company. - Jonathan Safran Foer You shouldn't hold on to things, to neuroses. People-artists-think they have to hold on to their neuroses, their pains, or they won't be a good actor anymore or a good artist. That's the Liar. The Liar tells you that. You hold on to them, you'll just wind up a lonely person. People become lonely with them, and the fame has moved on to someone else. You have to heal, you have to maintain relationships... That's why we say the Our Father: 'Deliver us from evil - Peggy Noonan That's love: Two lonely persons keep each other safe and touch each other and talk to each other. - Rainer Maria Rilke

Oh, Black known and unknown poets, how often have your auctioned pains sustained us? Who will compute the lonely nights made less lonely by your songs, or by the empty pots made less tragic by your tales? If we were a people much given to revealing secrets, we might raise monuments and sacrifice to the memories of our poets, but slavery cured us of that weakness. - Maya Angelou The ship of my life may or may not be sailing on calm and amiable seas. The challenging days of my existence may or may not be bright and promising. Stormy or sunny days, glorious or lonely nights, I maintain an attitude of gratitude. If I insist on being pessimistic, there is always tomorrow. Today I am blessed. - Maya Angelou Save me, Shahara. Save me from the lonely nights that never end. (Syn) - Sherrilyn Kenyon There's something about lonely nights and my lipstick on your face - Lady Gaga The heart makes its choices without weighing the consequences. It doesn't look ahead to the lonely nights t...

There is a music for lonely hearts nearly always. If the music dies down there is a silence. Almost the same as the movement of music. To know silence perfectly is to know music. - Carl Sandburg 3) Saturday night is the official meeting night of Penny Lane's Lonely Hearts Club. Attendance is mandatory. Exceptions are for family emergencies and bad hair days only. - Elizabeth Eulberg

Oh, God, I'm so lonely. An entire weekend streching ahead with no one to love or have fun with. Anyway, I don't care. I've got a lovely steamed ginger pudding from M&S to put in the microwave. - Helen Fielding 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. - Janet Fitch I'm so lonely, I just need somebody to call meeven if it's a wrong number. I'm also hungry, so maybe that caller could order me a pizza after they hang up on me. - Jarod Kintz

I'm lonely. Why do you think I had to learn to act so independent? I also get mad too quickly, and I hog the covers, and my second toe is longer than my big one. My hair has it's own zip code. Plus, I get certifiably crazy when I've got PMS. You don't love someone because they're perfect. You love them in spite of the fact that they're not. - Jodi Picoult I'm lonely. And I'm lonely in some horribly deep way and for a flash of an instant, I can see just how lonely, and how deep this feeling runs. And it scares the shit out of me to be this lonely because it seems catastrophic. - Augusten Burroughs Why am I so anxious? And then it hits me. I'm not anxious, I'm lonely. And I'm lonely in some horribly deep way and for a flash of an instant, I can see just how lonely, and how deep this feeling runs. And it scares the shit out of me to be so lonely because it seems catastrophic - seeing the car just as it hits you. - Augusten Burroughs I believ...

We have a long way to go to being the perfect couple, we certainly don't live the fairy tale marriage, he doesn't shower me with rose petals and fly me to Paris on weekends but when I get my hair cut, he notices. When I dress up to go out at night, he compliments me. When I cry, he wipes my tears. When I feel lonely, he makes me feel loved. And who needs Paris, when you can get a hug? - Cecelia Ahern This whole earth which we inhabit is but a point in space. How far apart, think you, dwell the two most distant inhabitants of yonder star, the breadth of whose disk cannot be appreciated by our instruments? Why should I feel lonely? is not our planet in the Milky Way? - Henry David Thoreau I feel alone. I don't mean i feel lonely; I mean i feel alone, the same way i feel the blanket resting on my body, or the feathers of my pillow under my head, or the tight string of my sleep pants twisted up around my waist. I feel alone as if it were an actual thing, seeping throughout t...

I am lonely, sometimes, but I dare say it's good for me... - Louisa May Alcott So I am lonely, but not alone, like everybody else. - Martin Amis When I am lonely for boys it's their bodies I miss. I study their hands lifting the cigarettes in the darkness of the movie theaters, the slope of a shoulder, the angle of a hip. Looking at them sideways, I examine them in different lights. My love for them is visual: that is the the part of them I would like to possess. - Margaret Atwood Are you planning on asking my daughter's permission to ravish me as I deserve? If so, please take heed when she informs you that I am lonely and need a woman in my life. She's been nagging me for the last five years to find one." "In your dreams, bat boy. - Katie Macalister Just because I am alone, does not mean I am lonely. I am not you. - Tsugumi Ohba

Did you ever walk through a room that's packed with people, and feel so lonely you can hardly take the next step? - Jodi Picoult We have often had this particular exchange about climate and landscape and why we both feel so lonely here uprooted. It was what each of us had wanted of course. Besides wanting to experience a place we hated, we wanted to be insomniacs and loners, losers and drop-outs. To know the sky was the only location of meaning and joy left to us. - Fanny Howe

We have a long way to go to being the perfect couple, we certainly don't live the fairy tale marriage, he doesn't shower me with rose petals and fly me to Paris on weekends but when I get my hair cut, he notices. When I dress up to go out at night, he compliments me. When I cry, he wipes my tears. When I feel lonely, he makes me feel loved. And who needs Paris, when you can get a hug? - Cecelia Ahern I have so many different personalities in me and I still feel lonely. - Tori Amos I wouldn't want them to feel lonely or outcast ever in any way. And no matter where they were in the world, I'd want them to always feel incredibly confident about who they were and proud. - Jennifer Beals Loneliness is a state of feeling that can be changed. People may still feel lonely even among the crowd. - Toba Beta This whole earth which we inhabit is but a point in space. How far apart, think you, dwell the two most distant inhabitants of yonder star, the breadth of whose disk cann...

You have never felt the weight of disappointing love or of failing to live up to expectations. The only thing you've ever been is lonely by yourself-you have no idea how desperate it is to be lonely in the midst of people who love you, and whom you would have done anything to make happy. - Alma Alexander When I get lonely these days, I think: So BE lonely, Liz. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience. But never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilled yearnings. - Elizabeth Gilbert Whenever I get lonely these days I think: So be lonely, Liz. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience. But never again use another person's body or emotions as scratching post for your own unfulfilled yearnings. - Elizabeth Gilbert You fall in love, it's intoxicating, an for a little ...

I am lonely, sometimes, but I dare say it's good for me... - Louisa May Alcott So I am lonely, but not alone, like everybody else. - Martin Amis When I am lonely for boys it's their bodies I miss. I study their hands lifting the cigarettes in the darkness of the movie theaters, the slope of a shoulder, the angle of a hip. Looking at them sideways, I examine them in different lights. My love for them is visual: that is the the part of them I would like to possess. - Margaret Atwood Are you planning on asking my daughter's permission to ravish me as I deserve? If so, please take heed when she informs you that I am lonely and need a woman in my life. She's been nagging me for the last five years to find one." "In your dreams, bat boy. - Katie Macalister Just because I am alone, does not mean I am lonely. I am not you. - Tsugumi Ohba