Loneliness Quotes

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.

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

There are some solitary wretches who seem to have left the rest of mankind, only, as Eve left Adam, to meet the devil in private.

Weeded and worn the ancient thatch Upon the lonely moated grange.

I am lonesome so regular it's like a job I gotta report to every day.

But, visiting Sea, your love doth press / And reach in further than you know, / And fills all these; and, when you go, / There's loneliness in loneliness.

No one complains of being a prisoner of love who has ever been a prisoner of loneliness.

I thought I knew what loneliness was before he found me, but I had no clue. You don't know what real loneliness is until you've known the opposite.

I better be honest about my feelings, even those involving loneliness, jealousy, and fear.

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

The loneliness of writing is that you baffle your friends and change the lives of strangers.

I need noise and interruptions and irritation: irritation and discomfort are a great starter. The loneliness of doing it any other way would kill me.

Any business or enterprise that shaves away loneliness is going to last forever. And like it or not but we've got a lonely society.

Respect for sovereignity, for privacy, for total independence. Gentle alliances against loneliness, they were, cool rational love-affairs without the love.

Loneliness cannot be shared.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

Every loneliness is a pinnacle

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

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

Loneliness is random; solitude is ritual.

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.

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

The sadness, the silence, the darkness, the loneliness... all of it held in a simple little moment. It was just so... I don't know. Just so much.

Half-drunk on well-creamed gas station coffee and the exhilarating loneliness of a freeway in nighttime.

It is said that life is too short, and that’s quite true, unless you are lonely. Loneliness can bring time to its knees; an absolute and utter standstill.

Spells of acute loneliness are an essential part of travel. Loneliness makes things happen.

I write because I want to end my loneliness. Books make people less alone. That, before and after everything else, is what books do. They show us that conversations are possible across distances.

To a heart formed for friendship and affection the charms of solitude are very short-lived.

People living alone get used to loneliness.

...to speak of them out loud, to speak of their hunger and pain and loneliness and humour, to make them visible so that can not be ravaged in the dark without great consequence.

Why do I write? It's not that I want people to think I am smart, or even that I am a good writer. I write because I want to end my loneliness.

Loneliness is the theme, and I play it like a symphony, in endless variations.

The problem with the loneliness I suffer is that the company of others has never been a cure for it.

When you're creating you have to descend to depths. You've just got to go there - to the boredom, the banality, the loneliness and all that. Those moments of really feeling in the flow are fleeting.

Everyone desires relationships and community. Most people want to belong to a cohesive, like-minded group. It staves off loneliness. It promotes identity. These are natural and very human instincts.

Birth is the start of loneliness and loneliness the start of poetry.

All of that loneliness and longing in my heart got transferred into the book Because of Winn-Dixie, I guess.

One can experience loneliness in two ways: by feeling lonely in the world or by feeling the loneliness of the world.

Loneliness was tough, the toughest role you ever played. Hollywood created a superstar, and pain was the price you paid.

One cat in a house is a sign of loneliness.

The song is languid and speaks of love and loneliness and loss. Why does love seem to go with the sad things?

I felt the kind of loneliness that can happen in a roomful of people when everyone but you seems to be in on the good time.