Loneliness Quotes

Loneliness becomes a lover, solitude a darling sin.

This world that I live in is empty and cold/the loneliness cuts me and tortures my soul.

Loneliness is a barrier that prevents one from uniting with the inner self.

If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.

I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.

My inspiration are the woman, friendship, and loneliness.

All I know is that I shall be alone again. There is nothing more terrible than to be alone among human beings.

An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.

Shyness is a condition foreign to the heart - a category, a dimension which leads to loneliness.

Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness.

Loneliness is the first thing which God's eye named not good.

In the developed countries there is a poverty of intimacy, a poverty of spirit, of loneliness, of lack of love. There is no greater sickness in the world today than that one.

Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.

There's a sorrow and pain in everyone's life, but every now and then there's a ray of light that melts the loneliness in your heart and brings comfort like hot soup and a soft bed.

If you go deeper and deeper into your own heart, you'll be living in a world with less fear, isolation and loneliness.

I have a very childlike rage, and a very childlike loneliness.

No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.

When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others. Only when one is connected to one's own core is.

You never walk alone. Even the devil is the lord of flies.

I did not love you out or boredom or loneliness or caprice. I loved you because the desire for you was stronger than any happiness.

Walking alone is not difficult but when we have walked a mile worth a thousand years with someone then coming back alone is what is difficult.

Lonely people tend, rather, to be lonely because they decline to bear the psychic costs of being around other humans. They are allergic to people. People affect them too strongly.

Loneliness doesn't have much to do with where you are.

Loneliness is emptiness, but happiness is you.

Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man.

I felt his hot tears and the loneliness of man and the sweetness of all men and the aching haunting beauty of the living

The vast loneliness is awe-inspiring and it makes you realize just what you have back there on Earth.

Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.

Freedom' is the most expensive possession there is; it has to be paid for with loneliness.

We don't have a word for the opposite of loneliness, but if we did, I could say that's what I want in life.

Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

Solitude without togetherness deteriorates into loneliness. One needs strong roots in togetherness to be solitary rather than lonely when one is alone.

And I am not one of those women who trips twice over the same stone.

Solitude is indeed dangerous for a working intelligence. We need to have around us people who think and speak. When we are alone for a long time we people the void with phantoms

Loneliness is my least favorite thing about life. The thing that I'm most worried about is just being alone without anybody to care for or someone who will care for me.

Maybe ever'body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.

The opposite of Loneliness is not Togetherness , It's Intimacy.

One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul, and yet no one ever comes to sit by it.

How we need another soul to cling to.

When the sparrow sings its final refrain, the hush is felt nowhere more deeply than in the heart of man.

The poem is lonely. It is lonely and en route. Its author stays with it. Does this very fact not place the poem already here, at its inception, in the encounter, in the mystery of encounter?

Loneliness is the ultimate poverty.

There are people who cannot risk loneliness with the experience. They always have to be in a flock and have human contact.

When does the loneliness of old age begin?

Even in this world where you’re getting everything you need and having this nice life, there’s still loneliness and longing and disconnection.

Loneliness is inner emptiness. Solitude is inner fulfillment.

Don't let loneliness drive you back into the arms of someone who doesn't give a damn about you.

The dominant feeling of the battlefield is loneliness.

What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one's self?

Nobody likes being alone that much. I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all. It just leads to disappointment.