Loneliness Quotes

Loneliness is bred of a mind that has grown earth-bound.

Turn, gentle Hermit of the Dale, And guide my lonely way To where yon taper cheers the vale With hospitable ray.

we use TV as we use tranquilizers- to even things out, to blot out unpleasantness, to dilute confusion, distress, unhappiness, loneliness.

After all who doesn't wish to make a spectacle of their loneliness

Some nights, valor and cold purpose aren't enough.

Loneliness: there is no organ that can take it all.

Often have I sighed to measure By myself a lonely pleasure,- Sighed to think I read a book, Only read, perhaps, by me.

Loneliness is something we [all people] go through. We go through mourning and longing. We make some bad choices sometimes because we're desperate for something, and that's okay. That's part of life.

She did not know the nature of her loneliness. The only words that named it were: This is not the world I expected.

Jamie enjoyed solitude, but loneliness was a constant ache.

Self-hatred is worse than loneliness.

Humans are almost always lonely.

I'm solitary as a pulled tooth, Lonely as an unwelcome truth, Lost as a minnow out of school, A genius in a crop of fools.

I knew this feeling, the 2 a.m. loneliness that I'd practically invented.

Love was the result of having caught a glimpse of another's loneliness.

It made me start to wonder if there were other people so lonely so close. I thought about “Eleanor Rigby.” It’s true, where do they all come from? And where do they all belong?

To multiply the years and divide by the desire to live is a kind of false accounting.

Lonely was much better than alone.

Those whom the gods chose as their property must not consort with mortals.

Loneliness and darkness have just robbed me of my valuables.

Celebrate your humanness, celebrate your craziness, celebrate your inadequacies, celebrate your loneliness ... but celebrate YOU!

The General Public is a statistical fiction created by a few exceptional men to make the loneliness of being exceptional a little easier to bear.

In human relations one should penetrate to the core of loneliness in each person and speak to that.

Some nights, one wants to tell beloveds everything that's been waiting to be said. Some nights, a man needs flesh and blood and warm breath and a loving heart.

Nothing remained but loneliness and grief.

Technology grows and so does loneliness.

‎Niko and his women will be the death of all the Stepsons yet.

I must confess that I am usually drawn to sadness, and loneliness has never been a stranger to me. But love tried to welcome me, but my soul drew back, guilty of lust and sin.

No, I won't try to escape myself by losing myself in artificial chatter 'Did you have a nice vacation?' 'Oh, yes, and you?' I'll stay here and try to pin that loneliness down.

It is said of a lonely man that he does not appreciate the life of society. This is like saying he hates hiking because he dislikes walking in thick forest on a dark night.

... we are all terribly alone no matter what people say.

Oh, whoever has been himself alone can never find another’s loneliness strange.

It seems to be that loneliness is a small price to pay for peace and quiet.

Mandarin ducks mate for life and will die of loneliness if separated from their chosen mate.

Death is loneliness in its purest form.

loneliness has its own needs!

Alienation and loneliness plant the seeds for rebellion and consciousness.

Of all the diseases I have known, loneliness is the worst.

The fact that Saigyo composed a poem that begins, "I shall be unhappy without loneliness," shows that he made loneliness his master.

Sometimes I dread loneliness more than bores. Other times, the reverse.

It's when you have friends that you can afford to be lonely. When you know a lot of people, loneliness becomes a luxury. It's only when you're forced to be lonely that it's bad.

...loneliness is not a function of solitude.

My characters are quite as real to me as so-called real people; which is one reason why I'm not subject to what is known as loneliness. I have plenty of company.

There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally.

Hate engenders loneliness and despair

Perhaps loneliness had nothing to do with place or circumstance; perhaps it was in you; yourself. Perhaps, wherever you were, you took your little circle of loneliness with you.

I don't know of a great artist who did not sacrifice and thereby have to wrestle with the depths of loneliness and sadness.

If you fear loneliness, then don't get married.

Moon! Moon! I am prone before you. Pity me,and drench me in loneliness.

Just the absence of loneliness. That's love enough.