Quotes about loneliness

He had escaped the abhorrent taint! He was truly completely alone! He was the only human being in the world!

Grenouille no longer wanted to go somewhere, but only to go away, away from human beings.

She wished there was some place where she could go to hum it out loud. Some kind of music was too private to sing in a house cram full of people. It was funny, too, how lonesome a person could be in a crowded house.

"The way I need you is a loneliness I cannot bear."

"The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone."

Somebody once said that there are only two places you can be alone—inside your mother’s womb and inside your coffin.

Minette pushed away her plate and stood up. What she wouldn't have given to be alone for a moment, just a moment. Oh, to have a room of my own, to be able to close myself up somewhere to think and to cry as much as I want! she thought to herself. (chapter IX, p120)

We can't stop others from neglecting us, but we can stop ignoring ourselves.

yesterday, in cafés and bars and streets all over town, thousands of other young couples had met, men and women whose paths had crossed and who had spent the weekend together, taking comfort in each other, salving their loneliness in this vast city. That's all, I thought as I sank down and my breathing grew deeper, aligned with his. Just as quickly as it started yesterday, it could be over tomorrow. It could all end with a big hug and a friendly kiss at the door. (chapter 13)

Being well cared for in nonemotional areas can create confusion in people who grow up feeling emotionally lonely. They have overwhelming physical evidence that their parents loved and sacrificed for them, but they feel a painful lack of emotional security and closeness with their parents.

Her mind was only a lonely mansion for the stories of extinction. (p333)

You might get to thinking that the challenges you're facing are not as legitimate as other people's. But it's this very feeling of isolated helplessness that actually binds you to the majority of humans living on this planet.