Maggie Nelson Quotes

It's a terrible feeling being lonely.

Mr. Brad Delp. J'ai une ame solitaire. I am a lonely soul.

Embrace your solitude and love it. Endure the pain it causes, and try to sing out with it. For those near to you are distant.

Only the lonely know the way I feel tonight.

... unspeakably lonely.

It's lonely up here.

Loneliness will sit over our roofs with brooding wings.

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

But inside or out, I was alone, and I was beginning to wonder if I always had been, if I always would be.

Well, I know about loneliness. I won't talk about it, but I was very lonely after the war. I know what it feels like to spend a whole weekend all by yourself and no one wants you at all.

This loneliness won't leave me alone.

It is easier, of course, to find dignity in one's solitude. Loneliness is solitude with a problem. Can blue solve the problem, or can it at least keep me company within it?-No, not exactly. It cannot love me that way; it has no arms. But sometimes I do feel its presence to be a sort of wink-Here you are again, it says, and so am I.

But if I must be alone, I refuse to be alone as if it were something weak and distasteful, like convalescence.

But when you're alone in the world, really alone, you have no choice but to be open to suggestions.

Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.

Leave my loneliness unbroken

Being alone is very difficult.

I had never felt so lonely and so sad in my entire life.

You reach out your hand, but you're all alone, in those time passages.

I am alone; I am always alone no matter what.

The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.

I like melancholy. I like to pretend that I'm alone in the world and I'm just sort of abandoned.

I'm so secluded. Very alone.

Lonesome. Lonesome. I know what it means. Here all by my lonesome, dreaming empty dreams. Weary. Weary at the close of day, wondering if tomorrow brings me joy or sorrow.

The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness.