loneliness Quotes

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.

I'm like a rock singer with one-night stands on the road.

I didn't play with other children.

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.

There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.

All of us feel, I think, that our experiences can be the worst possible thing you can go through and that we're alone in it, which is isolating and intense and insurmountable. But we can get over it.

Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.

The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.

When I was younger, I could do something useful just by being free for half a day, but now I need five days to get the world I've left out of my head and ten days or a fortnight not talking to anyone to hold what I need to hold inside my head.