Loneliness Quotes

I never really understood the word ‘loneliness’. As far as I was concerned, I was in an orgy with the sky and the ocean, and with nature.

I remember my grandfather telling me how each of us must live with a full measure of loneliness that is inescapable, and we must not destroy ourselves with our passion to escape the aloneness.

We enter the world alone, we leave it alone.

When we cannot bear to be alone, it means we do not properly value the only companion we will have from birth to death-ourselves.

Being alone is better than sitting next to a lover and feeling lonely.

There's nothing wrong with being fired.

A profound unmitigated loneliness is the only truth of life.

Eternity is a long time to spend alone, without others of your kind.

In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people.

A blank wall of social and professional antagonism faces the woman physician that forms a situation of singular and painful loneliness, leaving her without support, respect or professional counsel.

There is a loneliness more precious than life. There is a freedom more precious than the world. Infinitely more precious than life and the world is that moment when one is alone with God.

Let those who would affect singularity with success first determine to be very virtuous, and they will be sure to be very singular.

I'm all alone, but I'm not lonely.

The sky is one whole, the water another; and between those two infinities the soul of man is in loneliness.

As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.

Without great solitude no serious work is possible.

The soul hardly ever realizes it, but whether he is a believer or not, his loneliness is really a homesickness for God.

Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude.

Language... has created the word 'loneliness' to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word 'solitude' to express the glory of being alone.

That's the strange thing about a good story. No pleasure if you can't share it.

You do not have to be alone. The world never inflicts loneliness upon us. That is something we choose or reject by ourselves.

The very fine line between loneliness and solitude, reflection; being alone, always appealed to me when I was a kid.

If there is anything worth fearing in the world, it is living in such a way that gives one cause for regret in the end.

I don’t know what’s worse: to not know what you are and be happy, or to become what you’ve always wanted to be, and feel alone.

Loneliness is lessened when you're lonely by choice.

Loneliness is only an opportunity to cut adrift and find yourself. In solitude you are least alone.

Writing is an antidote for loneliness.

Art is made by the alone for the alone.

Happy children should not try to be artists. You have to be born with a broken heart and a sense of loneliness inside. I never had a happy moment as a child myself.

She was waiting, but she didn't know for what. She was aware only of her solitude, and of the penetrating cold, and of a greater weight in the region of her heart.

Loneliness is a hell of a drug.

You ache with loneliness one night so much you weep and I say 'here is a rope tie it around me Hafiz will be your companion for life'.

We are not alone in our loneliness, others have been here and known griefs we thought our special own.

I'm not much but I'm all I have.

I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.

Loneliness sometimes gives me a quantity of creativeness - you're drinking another glass of wine and you're feeling even worse. Art doesn't work without pain; art also exists for compensating pain.

There never can be a man so lost as one who is lost in the vast and intricate corridors of his own lonely mind, where none may reach and none may save.

Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.

All great and precious things are lonely.

Please, God. Help me. Take this pain away. Please fill this loneliness with your love. Help me, God, please, help me.

I will never say the things that I want to say to you. I know the damage it would do. I love you more than I hate my loneliness and pain.

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside

My loneliness ain't killing me no more.

Photography is a very lonely medium. There’s a kind of beautiful loneliness in voyeurism. And that’s why I’m a photographer.

Loneliness is the leprosy of the modern world.

When humans find themselves surrounded by nothing but objects, the response is always one of loneliness.

It's (the lack of communication between the people in his paintings, ed.) probably a reflection of my own, if I may say, loneliness. I don't know. It could be the whole human condition.

The deepest need of the human being is to overcome our separateness, to leave the prison of our loneliness.

As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely.