Loneliness Quotes

Maybe the biggest problem with loneliness is that we walk around thinking we're the only ones suffering from it.

married was the loneliest I got - being without the one you're with.

Gatherings and, simultaneously, loneliness are the conditions of a writer's life.

Loneliness is a feeling that is created by our ego. The ego feels separate from the rest of creation. The answer to overcoming those feelings is ecstasy.

The best antidote for loneliness, hopelessness, and fear is vulnerability: sharing your secrets and talking about what shames you, what you fear.

Gail Godwin has written a book about the heaviest matters of loss, grief, and loneliness with a touch so light that I was as often deeply amused by it as I was deeply moved.

Fear is the process of the mind in the struggle of becoming. In becoming good there is the fear of evil; in becoming complete, there is the fear of loneliness.

Sorrow is not in death but in loneliness, and conflict comes when you seek consolation, forgetfullness, explanations, and illusions.

Here had lived someone else who knew that the only thing waiting at home was a sense of loneliness. Sometimes it is comforting. Most often, it isn't.

Online communities are an expression of loneliness.

Loneliness is a mirror, and recognizes itself.

What you notice is the loneliness. Daniel started to isolate himself, because it hurt less than being pushed away.

Loneliness is not being alone, It's loving others to no avail.

I kept waiting for that loneliness and nervousness to make me want to go back. But it never did.

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.

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.

No one in the modern world is more lonely than the writer with a literary conscience.

There is a terrible loneliness in the spring.

What wants to live in you may be waiting...at the end of a long loneliness.

I'm supposed to be, I am an artist. Yes, I'm lonely. But I'm married to my loneliness.

No matter how lonely it makes me, and no matter how wide and horrific the loneliness, at least I remember who I am.

Shouldering your loneliness like a gun that you will not learn to aim, you stumble into this movie house then you climb, you climb into the frame.

Our loneliness makes us avid column readers these days.

When you're not feeling holy, your loneliness says that you've sinned.

who hasn't slept in an empty bed sometimes, longing for the embrace of another person on the achingly short trip to the grave?

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.

Shall I let in the stranger, Shall I welcome the sailor, Or stay till the day I die? Hands of the stranger and holds of the ships, Hold you poison or grapes?

I believe that it is sometimes less difficult to wake up and feel that I am alone when I really am, than to wake up with someone else and be lonely.

Whenever I'm around people it causes me to feel nostalgic for the loneliness that drove me into their presence in the first place.

Loneliness cannot be alleviated just by the coming together of two bodies, unless there is also good communication, understanding, and loving kindness.

the sentiment of immediate loss in some sort decayed, while that of utter, irremediable loneliness grew on me with time.

I am no good without you, Ginesse,” he said. “I spent a lifetime alone, but I never understood loneliness until I was away from you. I never understood happiness until I saw you again.

Loneliness is more likely to lead to fussy housekeeping than to grand views of the Universe.