Barbara Pym Quotes

I'd known enough people for every minute of the day, and yet still didn't have anyone as my two a.m.

I want to be around people, not crickets.

I was working in cartoons. I could go to Comic-Con, buy the Hal Jordan ring, I could buy animation cels, but at the end of the day, I come back to an empty apartment. I had a life that was only around me, and when I was broken, my world was broken.

No one to love, none to caress, Left all alone in this world's wilderness.

I have a life that's just been a well of loneliness.

Everything is nothing when you got no one.

Words are loneliness.

Usually there's no specific reason for loneliness - it's a broad feeling.

Within, walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone.

All the lonely people, where do they all come from?

Loneliness comes with life.

Oh, I do get lonely, yes.

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

Weeks go by, and I don't talk to another living soul.

I am alone, as though I stood On the highest peak of the tired gray world,About me only swirling snow, Above me, endless space unfurled;With earth hidden and heaven hidden, And only my own spirit's prideTo keep me from the peace of those Who are not lonely, having died.

Many people must live and die alone, even in Winesburg.

Together, we looked down at the tiny house, the sole thing on this vast, flat surface. Like the only person living on the moon. It could be either lonely or peaceful, depending on how you looked at it. "It's a start," I said.

A lot of people are lonely. A lot of people are lonely even when they're surrounded by other people.

I thought I knew what loneliness was before he found me, but I had no clue. You don't know what real loneliness is until you've known the opposite.

You need as much ballast as possible to stop you from floating away; you need people around you, things going on, otherwise life is like some film where the money ran out, and there are no sets, or locations, or supporting actors, and it's just one bloke on his own staring into the camera with nothing to do and nobody to speak to, and who'd believe in this character then?

It's terrible to lose somebody, but it's also true that some people never have anybody to lose, and I think that's got to be so much worse.

Loneliness is something you can't walk away from.

I fear you may become a lonely man, even in the company of others.

... we are all terribly alone no matter what people say.

Loneliness comes in two basic varieties. When it results from a desire for solitude, loneliness is a door we close against the world. When the world instead rejects us, loneliness is an open door, unused.