Loneliness Quotes

One can endure sorrow alone, but it takes two to be glad.

You got your glory and you paid for it all, you take your pension in loneliness and alcohol.

Loneliness is a required course for leadership.

Of my friends I am the only one left.

The abhorrence of loneliness is as natural as wanting to live at all.

Being a good host offsets the deprivation and loneliness of my youth

I do an awful lot of thinking and dreaming about things in the past and the future - the timelessness of the rocks and the hills - all the people who have existed there.

Plato calls complacency the companion of loneliness.

Well, being the youngest child and frail, I was left alone a great deal of the time.

One aged man - one man - can't fill a house.

I am not without an object in life, but I feel lonely and deserted.

It is necessary to like loneliness to be photographer

Nothing is quite as bad as being without privacy and lonely at the same time.

I've never been without a dog. I've made trips across the country with a dog. I've been in that angst of loneliness, where you're really alone in the universe, except for the dog.

In the past I have never thought about loneliness when working, and I don't think about it now. Yet there must be a reason for the fact that so many people talk about it.

So it is that Lonely Places attract as many lonely people as they produce, and the loneliness we see in them is partly in ourselves.

We walk alone through this world, but if we're lucky, we have a moment of belonging to something, to someone, that sustains us through a lifetime of loneliness.

Here in a little lonely room I am master of earth and sea, And the planets come to me.

There is a strain of loneliness infecting many Christians, which only the presence of God can cure.

Loneliness is a terrible blindness.

The kind of relatedness to the world may be noble or trivial, but even being related to the basest kind of pattern is immensely preferable to being alone.

You left , and my heart is a ceaseless sermon of loneliness.

It is loneliness that makes the loudest noise. This is true of men as of dogs.

The most evident quality of human life is its loneliness.

Modern man's difficulties, dangerous beliefs and feelings of loneliness, spiritual emptiness,and personal weakness are caused by his illusions about, and separation from, the natural world.

In short, [photography] is a matter of turning loneliness into thoughts.

We are so lonely in life that we must ask ourselves if the loneliness of dying is not a symbol of our human existence.

Ursula craved solitude but she hated loneliness, a conundrum that she couldn’t even begin to solve.

And the danger is that in this move toward new horizons and far directions, that I may lose what I have now, and not find anything except loneliness

Since I love you, my loneliness begins to throw you.

I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano!

I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others--young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life.

I felt very lonely when they were all there.

Solitude is not measured by the miles of space that intervene between a man and his fellows.

Loneliness becomes an acid that eats away at you.

So lonely 'twas that God himself scarce seemed there to be.

...real loneliness is having no one to miss. Think yourself lucky you've known something worth missing.

Lingering is so very lonely when one lingers all alone.

When we learn to speak, we learn to translate.

If loneliness was a choice, what was the other option? To settle for second-best and try to be happy with that? And was that fair to the person you settled for?

There is nothing more lonely than a true artist.

Isolation and loneliness are central causes of depression and despair.

For those who know the value of and exquisite taste of solitary freedom (for one is only free when alone), the act of leaving is the bravest and most beautiful of all.

The surest sign of age is loneliness.

I preach that odd defiant melancholy that sees the dreadful loneliness of the human soul and the pitiful disaster of human life as ever redeemable and redeemed by compassion, friendship and love.

What is man without the beasts? If all the beasts were gone, men would die from great loneliness of spirit

It's the hardest thing to be alone in being satisfied with what one's done.

Fame doesn't end loneliness.

Poverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness. A policy to reduce the loneliness of the elderly would certainly reduce suffering.

Fiction, poetry, music...these are the places (for me) where loneliness is countenanced, stared down, transfigured, treated.