loneliness Quotes

“I felt so lonesome, all of a sudden. I almost wished I was dead.”

― J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

topic:death loneliness

“I am alone in this white, garden-rimmed street. Alone and free. But this freedom is rather like death.”

― Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

topic:death freedom loneliness

“There is a way out of a forest, there is none out of a cloister; a man is free in the forest but he is a slave in the cloister. It may well be that greater strength of character is needed for standing up to solitude than to poverty, for if...”

― Denis Diderot, The Nun

topic:loneliness misery

“She lives in a world of her own — a world of little glass ornaments, Mother...”

― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie

topic:world loneliness

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

― Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye

topic:self beauty loneliness

“Is there nowhere in an American house where one may be by one's self?”

― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

topic:loneliness

“He moves fastest who moves alone.”

― Milton Friedman, Capitalism and Freedom

topic:loneliness

“Many people need desperately to receive this message: 'I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people don't care about them. You are not alone.'”

― Kurt Vonnegut, Timequake

topic:loneliness feelings

“I'm free, I think. I shut my eyes and think hard and deep about how free I am, but I can't really understand what it means. All I know is I'm totally alone. All alone in an unfamiliar place, like some solitary explorer who's lost his compass and...”

― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

topic:freedom loneliness

“I am lonely, sometimes, but I dare say it's good for me”

― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

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