Khalil Gibran Quotes

...but the truth is that I don't feel like I can carry anyone but myself right now. The streets are empty. I am empty. Or, no--I am full of pain. It's my life that's empty.

Nothing remained but loneliness and grief.

Until the bitter end, the emptiness inside her was hers alone.

The night below. We two. Crystal of pain. You wept over great distances. My ache was a clutch of agonies over your sickly heart of sand.

Alone. Yes, that's the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn't hold a candle to it and hell is only a poor synonym.

This world that I live in is empty and cold/the loneliness cuts me and tortures my soul.

But solitude is sadness.' 'Yes; it is sadness. Life, however, has worse than that. Deeper than melancholy lies heart-break.

In the country of pain we are each alone.

To cry on court during a Wimbledon final, you must feel so lonely.

Grief is an emotion that's almost unplayable because you're in a separate emotional state; it's an inconsolable emotion.

Maybe men are separated from each other only by the degree of their misery.

I understand the power of sorrow, and I understand how far it can take us from ourselves if we let it.

Our hearts are breaking... We are lonely and deserted, sad and sick.

Everything you do makes my body scream with loneliness.

This morning, for the first time in a long time, the joy again of imagining a knife twisted in my heart.

Lost in loneliness and pain. Black and unendurable, Thinking of you with every Corpuscle of my flesh, in Every instant of night And day.

Hope is the most sensitive part of a poor wretch's soul; whoever raises it only to torment him is behaving like the executioners in Hell who, they say, incessantly renew old wounds and concentrate their attention on that area of it that is already lacerated.

You have left me so long to struggle against death, alone, that I feel and see only death! I feel like death!

Angel screeched with fury and despair to the empty walls around her. "I'm human, do you hear me? It hurts!

It's not fair to show someone the sun and then banish him from it. Even the devil may cry when he looks around hell and realizes that he's there alone. -Acheron

It’s only when you’ve lost someone that you realize the nonsense of that phrase “It’s a small world”. It isn’t. It’s a vast, devouring world, especially if you’re alone.

One bitter time of mourning, I remember, When day, and night, my sad heart did complain, My life, I said, was one cold, bleak December, And all its pleasures, were but whited pain.

And here am I, budding among the ruins with only sorrow to bite on, as if weeping were a seed and I the earth's only furrow.