Loneliness Quotes

She had never before minded being alone. Now she dreaded it. When she was alone now she felt so dreadfully alone.

If it's true what is said, that only the wise discover the wise, then it must also be true that the lone wolf symbolizes either the biggest fool on the planet or the biggest Einstein on the planet.

I stood lonely enough, but to that feeling of isolation I was accustomed: it did not oppress me much.

Anyone who is desperate or alone will agree there is comfort in routine.

My sleep wasn't peaceful, though. I have the sense of emerging from a world of dark, haunted places where I traveled alone.

I had been alone more than I could have been had I gone by myself.

She deserved at least one person who saw her and knew how good she was.

In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.

If our greatest fear is to sink away alone and unremembered, the brutality that time will inflict upon each of us will always run stronger than any river's murky waves.

She was like a lone angel floating above the surface of the earth, laughing with delight because she could fly but crying out of loneliness.

Outside the hospital, I squinted in the harsh morning sunlight. I could hear birds chirping in the tree, but even though I searched for them, they remained hidden from me.

Lucian was beginning to get used to hearing her small observations at night. More than anything, he realized he liked her voice in the dark. It made him feel less lonely.

Some people are just not meant to be in this world. It's just too much for them.

On this road there are no godspoke men. They are gone and I am left and they have taken with them the world.

You can use your time to build bridges or walls.The latter is not only unChristlike, it limits impact & creates loneliness.

Remember that although the distinction can be difficult to draw, loneliness and solitude are different.

... the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be.

We poets would die of loneliness but for women, and we choose our men friends that we may have somebody to talk about women with. Letter to Olivia Shakespeare, 1936

And God stands winding His lonely horn, And time and the world are ever in flight.

A man is an island in the only sense that matters, not an easy way to be. We live in mystery, a cosmos of separate lonely bodies, men, insects, stars. It is all loneliness and men know it best.

Loneliness is random; solitude is ritual.

Python carries his loneliness in him as if he had eaten clay.

maybe the lonely places are the only things that make human beings of us all.

Every loneliness is a pinnacle

There never was a woman so ill-suited to public life as I am. I have had to whip myself, as it were, into society, and the loneliness of it all has been terrific.

Some nights in the midst of this loneliness I swung among the scattered stars at the end of the thin thread of faith alone.

My loneliness turned itself inside out and I grew myself a kind of perverse pride.

Nothing impresses the mind with a deeper feeling of loneliness than to tread the silent and deserted scene of former throng and pageant.

One form of loneliness is to have a memory and no one to share it with.

Everything is freedom and everything is loneliness. Make your choice and let the rest fall away.

Travel, in the superficial sense at least, is a good cure for loneliness. When you travel, especially in the third world, you quickly find that you get more friends than you know what to do with.

Action is limited and relative. Unlimited and absolute is the vision of him who sits at ease and watches, who walks in loneliness and dreams.

I barely noticed loneliness anymore; it was my normal condition, by necessity if not by nature.

Like all strong people, she suffered always a measure of loneliness; she was a marginal outsider, a secret infidel of a certain sort.

Works of art are of an infinite loneliness and with nothing so little to be reached as with criticism.

Oh! death will find me, long before I tire Of watching for you; and swing me suddenly Into the shade and loneliness and mire Of the last land!

loneliness can fly a helicopter through a cut-out shape of a helicopter the same size as the helicopter and that's it's only skill and it isn't good enough but it's still amazing.

Loneliness surrounds me without your arms around me.

Locked into loneliness were we two and looking at one another every evening we each saw the one we blamed for it.

I have learned to be steady in my course of love, or fear, or loneliness, rather than impulsive in its wasting, either lyrically or emotionally.

We all know how important love is, yet how often is it really emoted or exhibited? What so many sick people in this world suffer from-loneliness, boredom and fear-can't be cured with a pill.

It's the only condition I know. Bitter Love, Loneliness, contempt for corruption, blind hope. It's where I live. A permanent state of bereavement. This is nothing new.

Feeling lonely and ignoble indicates that you haven't been patient.

The association between failure, loneliness, and solitude is so strong in our culture that people often find it difficult to believe that there are some who like being by themselves.

Loneliness is everything it's cracked up to be.

love all the people you can. The sufferings from love are not to be compared to the sorrows of loneliness.

It takes loneliness in oneself to recognize it in another.

We’re always alone. You can be in a crowded room and still feel the bite of loneliness. Personally, I find that it bites deepest whenever others are around.

Marriage. Don't be pressured into it. Is the fear of loneliness really greater than the fear of bondage?

Loneliness is like being the only person left alive in the universe, except that everyone else is still here.