Best loneliness & loss Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“It cannot be doubted that theistic belief is a comfort and a solace to those who hold it, and that the loss of it is a very painful loss. It cannot be doubted, at least, by many of us in this generation, who either profess it now, or received it in our childhood and have parted from it since with such searching trouble as only cradle-faiths can cause. We have seen the spring sun shine out of an empty heaven, to light up a soulless earth; we have felt with utter loneliness that the Great Companion is dead.”

Source: The Ethics of Belief and Other Essays

“the sentiment of immediate loss in some sort decayed, while that of utter, irremediable loneliness grew on me with time.”

Loss Grief Loneliness Grew Sentiments

Book:The Last Man

Source: The Last Man

“I get an audience personally involved in a song - because I'm involved myself. It's not something I do deliberately: I can't help myself. If the song is a lament at the loss of love, I get an ache in my gut. I feel the loss myself and I cry out the loneliness, the hurt and the pain that I feel.”

Ifs Feels I Can Helping Pain Song Hurt Loss Audience Loneliness Cry Involved Guts Ache Lament Love Loss

Author:Frank Sinatra

“Single people slip out of the dating market for many social, economic, psychological, and ideological reasons including marriage, illness, bankruptcy, job promotion, exhaustion, and common sense. Inevitably, however, they return because of divorce, boredom, loneliness, and memory loss.”

“Gail Godwin has written a book about the heaviest matters of loss, grief, and loneliness with a touch so light that I was as often deeply amused by it as I was deeply moved.”

Book Matter Light Loss Grief Written Loneliness Moved Amused Grief Loss Gail

Author:Frederick Buechner

“We want to know that we're not alone with our loneliness or loss.”

Knows Want Loss Loneliness Not Alone

Author:Michael Helm

“I've never thought about songwriting as a weapon. I've only thought about it as a way to help me get through love and loss and sadness and loneliness and growing up.”

Way Helping Loss Growing Up Growing Sadness Loneliness Weapons Help Me Songwriting Love And Loss Sadness And Loneliness

Author:Taylor Swift

“Once I heard my mother say that each of us lives in a separate universe, one we have dreamed into being. We love pople when their dream coincides with ours, the way two cutout designs laid one on top of the other might match. But dream worlds are not static like cutouts; sooner or later they change shape, leading to misunderstanding, loneliness and loss of love.”

World Way Two Dream Might Mother Universe Loss Heard Loneliness Design Shapes Sooner Or Later Misunderstanding Static Dream World Love Loss

Author:Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

“The song is languid and speaks of love and loneliness and loss. Why does love seem to go with the sad things?”

Doe Seems Song Speak Loss Loneliness Sad Things

Book:A Map of the Known World

Source: A Map of the Known World

“To see and feel one's beloved naked for the first time is one of life's pure, irreducible epiphanies. If there is a true religion in the universe, it must include that truth of contact or be forever hollow. To make love to the one true person who deserves that love is one of the few absolute rewards of being a human being, balancing all of the pain, loss, awkwardness, loneliness, idiocy, compromise, and clumsiness that go with the human condition. To make love to the right person makes up for a lot of mistakes.”

Source: Rise of Endymion

“Some minds corrode and grow inactive under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irritable; but it is the nature of the poet to become tender and imaginitive in the loneliness of confinement. He banquets upon the honey of his own thoughts, and, like the captive bird, pours forth his soul in melody.”

Mind Soul Grows Loss Liberty Loneliness Poet Bird Melody Honey Captives Morbid Banquets Confinement Personal Liberty

Book:The Complete Works

Source: The Complete Works

“But the more people we love and the more deeply we love them, the more vulnerable we are to loss and grief and loneliness.”

People Loss Grief Loneliness Vulnerable Grief And Loss

Book:Life Expectancy

Source: Life Expectancy

“My loneliness...still comes over me sometimes...It's a liminal, lost sensation of having wandered wide, endless boulevards, among rows of orange trees, winter butterflies, seasons reversed and out of order, dogs barking from behind fences meant to keep out intruders. It's not the place that impoverishes me but I who bring my own sense of poverty, of loss, to the place. It's a sense of near nothingness, as though I were not so much a blank slate as an erased chalkboard, still bearing illegible smudges of smoothed-over writing.”

“Jealousy is a terrible thing. I know all the psychological triggers. The fear of losing control, the fear of loss, the fear of abandonment, neglect and loneliness... But the most destructive thing about jealousy is that it kills what it values - the love you want to save won't survive the constraints of jealousy. There is no entitlement. Love is either equal or a tragedy.”

“Rage keeps the person who feels it company. It moves into the hollows left by grief and loss, and turns inside you like a dark furred animal that grows and fills you; it kills off loneliness and takes its place.”

Feels Persons Moving Turns Left Grows Dark Loss Animal Grief Company Loneliness Hatred Rage Grief And Loss

Book:I Loved You All: A Novel

Source: I Loved You All: A Novel

“A world without pain, loss, betrayal, hate, death, loneliness? Impossible!”

World Pain Hate Loss Impossible Loneliness Betrayal Without Pain

Author:Darren Shan

“It made me have a much greater understanding of loss, of loneliness, and the level of intense tragedy that so many people have experienced in this world, I take a lot less for granted.”

People World Made Understanding Loss Levels Greater Loneliness This World Tragedy Intense Granted Taken For Granted Taking Things For Granted Things We Take For Granted

Author:Adrien Brody

“Sometimes I see the sadness in you, the same sadness that's in me. It's in the way you sigh and stare and hang your head. It's in the way you never wholly let your guard down and take the world I've given you for granted. My sadness isn't a way I feel but a thing trapped inside the walls of my flesh, like a smog. It takes the sheen off everything. It rolls the world in soot. It saps the power from my limbs and presses my back into a stoop.”

Loss Grief Sadness Loneliness Trust Loyalty Unconditional Love Dogs And Humans

Book:Spill Simmer Falter Wither

Source: Spill Simmer Falter Wither

“Promises meant nothing. People left. That was all they ever did.”

Loss Grief Childhood Loneliness Heartbreak Memory Trauma Abandonment Orphan Promises

Book:Nowhere Strangers: A Sapphic Coming-of-Age Story of Digital Romance, Heartbreak, and Self-Discovery

Source: Nowhere Strangers: A Sapphic Coming-of-Age Story of Digital Romance, Heartbreak, and Self-Discovery

“Had someone finally come back for her? And then she woke up. Alone. Again.”

Loss Grief Childhood Loneliness Heartbreak Memory Trauma Abandonment Orphan Promises

Book:Nowhere Strangers: A Sapphic Coming-of-Age Story of Digital Romance, Heartbreak, and Self-Discovery

Source: Nowhere Strangers: A Sapphic Coming-of-Age Story of Digital Romance, Heartbreak, and Self-Discovery

“I'd known grief and loss, but I'd never known loneliness.”

Love Loss Grief Loneliness Heartbreak Kasia Bacon

Book:Twenty-One Arrow Salute

Source: Twenty-One Arrow Salute

“I still belonged to you long after you belonged to someone else.”

Love Life Loss Loneliness Broken Heartbreak Alone Love Triangle Jenim Dibie Love Lost

Author:Jenim Dibie

“New York,” I have a good friend there. I found a job, a place. I had to- away from here; away from Bella; from you.” Swallowing, I clasped my hands together to stop from trembling and I said in a low, audible voice, “From me?” He sighed heavily. “I can’t love you, Helena. I still love Bella. And I suppose I could love another woman in another way at the same time, but not you.” “…but why?” I tried hard to keep my voice and gaze even. I glanced at the plain wedding ring on the third finger on his left hand, his wedding band. It was gleaming brightly in the firelight. I felt my heart plummet, like a disappointed child. Seeking the right words, he replied with a very soft voice, “It’s because I would always see you as an extension of her. I want to fall in love with you in separate way, the one that involves only us, uninfluenced by the past and our hurt. I can’t do that now and I can’t tell when I’ll be able to.”

Love Loss Dreams Loneliness Heartbreak Longing

Book:The Whys Of Us

Source: The Whys Of Us

“To be happy to be sad and sad to be happy is to sing an echo in that beautiful language called Sorrow.”

Source: Healology

“But it feels so cold here without her.”

Loss Grief Sadness Loneliness Emotional Reflection Mourning Emptiness

Book:Adelaide

Source: Adelaide

“I am no longer young. And my heart, through weary years of mourning over the dead, is not attuned to mirth. Moreover, the walls of my castle are broken; the shadows are many, and the wind breathes cold through the broken battlements and casements.”

Death Loss Sadness Loneliness Horror Gothic Ageing Classics Dracula Mournful

Book:Dracula

Source: Dracula

“Will this pain leave as quickly as you did?”

Pain Romance Loss Sadness Loneliness Unrequited Love Missing Someone

Book:Cardiac Ablation

Source: Cardiac Ablation

“She's like a sentence I never heard. 'Come again,' I said.”

Romance Loss Sadness Loneliness Longing Unrequited Love Missing Someone Unreciprocated Love

Book:Cardiac Ablation

Source: Cardiac Ablation

“When you're sad, everything sad builds up. The most painfully truthful thoughts arise, uninvited and unforgiving. The brain, a devoted soldier, always successful, somehow manages to rapidly search its host's darkness. There is no escape to what is next. First, all the buried thoughts you locked in a gloomy chest are released. Second, you begin crying over what you never wanted to admit. Suddenly, you begin to cry over things you did not even know actually deeply hurt you. And sometimes, the wet physicalization of your sorrow isn't enough. Instead, a violent madness stirs in your chest and your head is polluted with a red so angry, your jaw opens to fill the earth with a scream so rare you lose a little of yourself. Your roaring voice trails in pieces, like bullet fragments in flesh, to complete the song that is Loss.”

Pain Loss Grief Sadness Loneliness Depression Anger Frustration Sad Quotes Painful Memories

Book:Cardiac Ablation

Source: Cardiac Ablation

“It was always with her now, that sadness, like one of those rare orchids you saw clinging to jungle branches on TV, always blooming in her at unexpected moments, and even on the move, scuffing down the hall toward Doodle's room, the thought of evading it called it into being. Sadness. The word itself didn't do the feeling justice. What she felt was a more complicated alchemy of emotion, equal parts grief and loneliness and longing, with measures of resentment and self-pity drizzled in.”

Loss Grief Sadness Loneliness Grieving Losing A Loved One

Author:Michael Knight

“You see, when everything else is gone, there's always work. I don't think anyone ever realises how much work can mean until the other things are gone.”

Hope Work Loss Loneliness Wartime World War One The Dark Tide Vera Brittain

Book:The Dark Tide

Source: The Dark Tide

“Wren could not easily walk away now, because she had lingered past the point of invisibility. Her identity was crystallized to these people, and once she allowed herself to become solid to other human beings, she would be seen. After being seen, Wren risked being known, and being known came with the risk of loss. Even this small interaction cost her too much.”

Fear Loss Risk Loneliness Being Known

Book:Shark Heart

Source: Shark Heart

“Gestern, inmitten des zarten Übergangs vom Morgengrauen zur Abenddämmerung, fühlte ich mich verloren zwischen der greifbaren Umarmung der Realität und dem vergänglichen Reich der Träume und Illusionen. Die Freude an der Erinnerung, einst ein geschätzter Trost, entzog sich nun meinem Zugriff, denn es gab keinen Begleiter, mit dem ich diese wertvollen Erinnerungen teilen konnte. Es war, als hätte die Abwesenheit meiner Geliebten diesen gemeinsamen Erlebnissen die Essenz entzogen und sie hohl und distanziert gemacht. Der Verlust eines unverzichtbaren Menschen fügt dem Herzen eine tiefe Wunde zu, die nie vollständig heilt. Sie bleiben für immer in den zerbrochenen Kammern unserer Seele präsent, ihre Essenz ist für immer mit unserer eigenen verbunden. Die einfachen Nuancen unseres gemeinsamen Daseins, einst Quellen der Wärme und des Trostes, dienen heute als eindringliche Echos, die vor Schmerz nachhallen. In der riesigen Fläche, in der sich einst deine Präsenz befand, existiert jetzt eine Leere – eine Leere, die genau nach diesem Bild geformt ist und von keinem anderen gefüllt wird. Ich navigiere ständig durch die Konturen dieser Leere, durchquere tagsüber ihre Tiefen und erliege nachts ihrer allumfassenden Dunkelheit. Es ist eine Kluft, die kunstvoll in die Silhouette deiner Abwesenheit eingraviert ist, eine Leere, die sich allen Versuchen der Schließung widersetzt, denn niemand sonst kann jemals den Raum einnehmen, den du einst in meinem Herzen gehalten hast.”

Pain Loss Grief Loneliness Longing Memory Absence Heartache

Author:Rolf van der Wind

“Yet there are times when for no logical reason I feel an almost unbearable sense of isolation. Not only am I divided in myself, my underwater and above-water selves separated, but I feel wrenched away from everybody around me. This is part of being human, this knowing that we are all part of one another, inextricably involved; and at the same time alone, irrevocably alone.”

Pain Humanity Community Loss Grief Human Nature Loneliness Isolation

Book:The Summer of the Great-Grandmother

Source: The Summer of the Great-Grandmother

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