Loneliness

Examples

• The wind sighed low in the firs: all was moorland loneliness and midnight hush. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Was it all self-pity, loneliness, or low spirits? Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• What was his loneliness in the wild, thick woods, where man was never seen, to this! Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• A desolate air of utter and complete loneliness fell upon him, like a visible shade. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• But the sense of loneliness returned with redoubled force as she saw herself forever shut out from Selden's inmost self. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Labor in loneliness is irksome. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• I forgot my state of loneliness. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• I have hardly had time yet to enjoy a sense of tranquillity, much less to grow impatient under one of loneliness. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• There was something so strange and dreadful in the loneliness and emptiness of the house, that I was glad, on my side, to have a companion near me. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The loneliness and helplessness of the woman touched me. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Her loneliness deepened her desire. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• How great a part the desolating loneliness of a city plays in seductions the individual histories in the report show. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• I am lonely in the day when I am not working but when the dark comes it is a time of great loneliness. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• She had been unhappy, and now she was happy--she had felt herself alone, and now the sense of loneliness had vanished. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Having done such a thing there is a loneliness that cannot be borne, Pablo said to her quietly. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.

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