Quotes about loneliness

He blamed Jon Snow and wondered when Jon's heart had turned to stone. Once he asked Maester Aemon that very question, when Gilly was down at the canal fetching water for them. “When you raised him up to be the lord commander,” the old man answered.

She was Daenerys Stormborn, the Unburnt, khaleesi and queen, Mother of Dragons, slayer of warlocks, breaker of chains, and there was no one in the world that she could trust.

If I die, I die friendless and abandoned. What choice did that leave him, but to live?

“Kings have no friends,” Stannis said bluntly, “only subjects and enemies.”

When someone won't let you in, eventually you stop knocking.

It was in the Passage that I discovered tribal life and learned to hate it. How happy had been the intimacy of our blind alley, now lost for good! As long as I had lived alone, I had lived in peace.

To be shelterless and alone in the open country, hearing the wind moan and watching for day through the whole long weary night; to listen to the falling rain, and crouch for warmth beneath the lee of some old barn or rick, or in the hollow of a tree; are dismal things—but not so dismal as the wandering up and down where shelter is, and beds and sleepers are by thousands; a houseless rejected creature.

There are great themes running through my mind. The themes of loneliness and human discard. The theme of who do I hate when there's no one left.

Alone, alone, all, all alone,

Alone on a wide wide sea!

And never a saint took pity on

My soul in agony.

So lonely 't was, that God himself

Scarce seemed there to be.

Solitude matters, and for some people it is the air that they breathe.

We've known about the transcendent power of solitude for centuries; it's only recently that we've forgotten it.