Loneliness Quotes

We are never the same with others as when we are alone. We are different, even when we are in the dark with them.

Be good and you will be lonely.

One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on their way.

It's an odd feeling-farewell-there is some envy in it. Men go off to be tested for courage and if we're tested at all, it's for patience, for doing without, for how well we can endure loneliness.

I'll never forget how the depression and loneliness felt good and bad at the same time. Still does.

Even if times are tough and you're enduring a terrible heartache, it's important to focus your anger on a vibrator, not another person.

The Sun is such a lonely star. Whenever he comes out to see his friends, they all disappear.

What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear.

We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.

Believe to the end, even if all men went astray and you were left the only one faithful; bring your offering even then and praise God in your loneliness.

..he understood far more deeply than anyone else the loneliness that lurked beneath his jaunty mask.

being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.

The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness.

The loneliness you feel with another person, the wrong person, is the loneliest of all.

When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.

Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday.

if you are afraid of loneliness, don't get married

But the West of the old times, with its strong characters, its stern battles and its tremendous stretches of loneliness, can never be blotted from my mind.

Depression on my left, Loneliness on my right. They don't need to show me thier badges. I know these guys very well.

There is none more lonely than the man who loves only himself.

Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.

And because of our selfishness, we will be condemned to the worst torture humankind ever invented for itself: loneliness.

Loneliness does not worry me; life is difficult enough, putting up with yourself and with your own habits.

We expect more from technology and less from each other.

In misery's darkest cavern known, His useful care was ever nigh Where hopeless anguish pour'd his groan, And lonely want retir'd to die.

On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.

A writer is essentially a man who does not resign himself to loneliness.

Loneliness can be conquered only by those who can bear solitude.

Loneliness is failed solitude.

When it comes to pain, love, joy, loneliness, and fear, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy.

Loneliness has been following me my whole life.

The individual has always to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe.

Wouldn't it be nice if all the people who are lonesome could live in one big dormitory, sleep in beds next to each other, talk, laugh, and keep the lights on as long as they want to?

I have a life that's just been a well of loneliness.

The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.

Some nights are made for torture, or reflection, or the savoring of loneliness.

A lonely day is God's way of saying that he wants to spend some quality time with you.

But never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilling yearnings.

I felt more than ever the necessity of my mission. But I went home out of spirits, I hardly know why. I must work by myself all life long.

There is absolutely no point in sitting around and feeling sorry for yourself. The great power you have is to let go ... focus on what you have, no that which has been mean or unkindly removed.

Green makes me think of silence, or maybe it's loneliness. I get the feeling of a terribly distant star.

People are longing to rediscover true community. We have had enough of loneliness, independence and competition.

The poverty in the West is a different kind of poverty—it is not only a poverty of loneliness but also of spirituality. There’s a hunger for love, as there is a hunger for God.

When we truly realize that we are all alone is when we need others the most.

No specter assails us in more varied disguises than loneliness, and one of its most impenetrable masks is called love.

Are the dead as lonesome as the living?

Anger is a manifestation of a deeper issue... and that, for me, is based on insecurity, self-esteem and loneliness.

Not belonging is a terrible feeling. It feels awkward and it hurts, as if you were wearing someone else's shoes.

The eagle has no liberty; he only has loneliness.

While you are alone you are entirely your own master and if you have one companion you are but half your own, and the less so in proportion to the indiscretion of his behavior.