Ellen Glasgow Quotes

Many a housewife staring at the back of her husband's newspaper, or listening to his breathing in bed is lonelier than any spinster in a rented room.

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

All my life I've been lonely. I've been lonely at crowded parties. I've been lonely in the middle of kissing a girl and I've been lonely at camp with hundreds of fellows around. But now I'm not lonely any more.

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

There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.

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

Stephen Blackpool fall into the loneliest of lives, the life of solitude among a familiar crowd. The stranger in the land who looks into ten thousand faces for some answering look and never finds it, is in cheering society as compared with him who passes ten averted faces daily, that were once the countenances of friends

There she is, lying in front of me, smoking a cigarette, thinking of something or someone else. And that’s how she is stuck in my mind forever. We are two explorers in the dark. Mapless and hopeless. Alone together.

I have never felt so lonely as on a golf course in the midst of a championship with thousands of people around, especially when things began to go wrong and the crowds started wandering away.

The loneliness you feel with another person, the wrong person, is the loneliest of all.

Solitude is one thing and loneliness is another.

The loneliness of the man is slowly being borne in upon me. There is not a man aboard but hates or fears him, nor is there a man whom he does not despise.

I think everybody gets lonely sometimes. I don't know if people can ever understand how you can be in a room full of people and be lonely sometimes.

I think, at the end of the day, I have an outsider's heart.

Even in the presence of others he was completely alone.

Because of my childhood where I was constantly by myself, I always feel lonely. I have a lot of people that I absolutely love and I know love me but I can't get rid of that feeling of loneliness no matter who I'm with - even with my children.

Isolation is a dream killer.

I think a lot of kids feel alone and slightly isolated and in their own world.

I would say, 'I'm alone, but I'm not lonely.' But I was just kidding myself.

I have this morbid fascination with being completely alienated from everybody, and a lot of the time I really do feel that way.

I think everyone is lonely whether you are in a good marriage or a bad marriage somewhere down the line you become lonely, and to get rid of that loneliness you have to try really hard.

And even though I'm standing in the middle of the biggest crowd I've ever seen in my life, I suddenly feel very alone.

married was the loneliest I got - being without the one you're with.

Lonely? I don't know. They tell me this is cold. I don't know what cold is, because I don't freeze. So I don't know what lonely means either. Bears are made to be solitary.