Lack of Companionship Quotes

Our reason has driven all away. Alone at last, we end up ruling over a desert.

It suddenly seemed to me that I was lonely, that every one was forsaking me and going away from me. Of course, any one is entitled to ask who "every one" was. For though I had been living almost eight years in Petersburg I had hardly an acquaintance. But what did I want with acquaintances? I was acquainted with all Petersburg as it was.

Full of men, vacant of friends.

When a knave is in a plumtree he hath neither friend nor kin.

The evening passes somehow; I watch television with Nancy, or I write. It is difficult, not having a family, and it is difficult to explain. I always go to bed early. And I am always ready for Monday morning, that time that other people dread.

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

In football, I don't have a lot of friends. The people who I really trust, there are not many... Most of the time, I'm alone.

I felt very lonely when they were all there.

I was... the loser of my class. I had absolutely no friends.

Life has no friend.

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

As far as I am concerned, the greatest suffering is to feel alone, unwanted, unloved. The greatest suffering is also having no one, forgetting what an intimate, truly human relationship is, not knowing what it means to be loved, not having a family or friends.

Still I sojourn here, alone and palely loitering, though the sedge is withered from the lake and no birds sing. For I sent the bath towel to the wash this morning, and omitted to put out another. I have no towel.

Having no new companions, nothing remained for him but to read.

Loneliness is just a thing that I'm not personally interested in. So far, it hasn't been on my docket of things to write about.

To be without sympathy is to be alone in the world--without friends or country, home or kindred.

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

He could not feel her near him in the darkness nor hear her voice touch his ear. He waited for some minutes listening. He could hear nothing: the night was perfectly silent. He listened again: perfectly silent. He felt that he was alone.

Evidently, whatever else marriage might prevent, it was not a remedy for isolation of spirit.

This is what it means to be alone: everyone is connected to everyone else, their bodies are a bright liquid life flowing around you, sharing a single heart that drives them to move all together. If the shark comes they will all escape, and leave you to be eaten.

Loneliness is something you can't walk away from.

...loneliness is not a function of solitude.

It is not easy to be solitary unless you are also born ruthless. Every solitary repudiates someone.

A fav'rite has no friend!

A lot of people spend their time just floating/ We were victims together but lonely.