Loneliness Quotes - Page 10

Even now it comes as a shock if by chance I notice in the street a face resembling someone I know however slightly, and I am at once seized by a shivering violent enough to make me dizzy.

Show me what you've written," I said, although I wanted desperately to avoid looking at it.

And I was incapable of living all by myself in those lodgings where I didn't know a soul. It terrified me to sit by myself quietly in my room. I felt frightened, as if I might be set upon or struck by someone at any moment.

Wherever you go in the next
catastrophé
Be it sickroom, or prison,
or cemet’ry
Do not fear that your stay will be
solit’ry
Countless souls share your fate,
you’ll have company!

It’s not that I mind being alone, not really. I can distract myself with silly fantasies and daydreams for hours, but in the end it always comes back to me. That’s what I’m left with: just me. And that’s what scares me more than anything. Me.

If I could always read I should never feel the want of company.

Books make the best ersatz friendships.

I shall not be lonely. No one who reads is ever that.

It would be so great to have someone my own age to talk to, even if it was just about books.

I watched the moon alone, unable to share his cold beauty with anyone.

Loneliness and desperation are only possible when we have lost touch with our beauty within.

I often stood in front of the mirror alone, wondering how ugly a person could get.

God desires that man should be. God does not wish to be alone. The meaning of existence is the conquest of loneliness, the acquisition of kinship and nearness.

Twice I'd come home as they were finishing, and, honestly, I cannot think of a lonelier sound on a Saturday night than one's roommate having a giant orgasm and then making an embarrassed sssh sound, realizing that maybe through her pleasure she'd heard the front door open and close.

I've seen the way you've been looking at me. Don't bullshit me, Pat. I live in the addition around back, which is completely separate from the house, so there's no chance of my parents walking in on us. I hate the fact that you wore a football jersey to dinner, but you can fuck me as long as we turn the lights out first. Okay?

This morning could have been perfect. The cruel truth is they have never been. Give us loneliness or give us death.

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.

I never really understood the word ‘loneliness’. As far as I was concerned, I was in an orgy with the sky and the ocean, and with nature.

Since nature abhors a vacuum, the void must be in you.

A person who can hide his tears but can never hide his smile is a Joker.