Loneliness Quotes

Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.

There's a difference between solitude and loneliness. I can understand the concept of being a monk for a while.

In solitude the lonely man is eaten up by himself, among crowds by the many.

When everyone leaves you it's loneliness you feel, when you leave everyone else it's solitude.

The more you stay in this kind of job, the more you realize that a public figure, a major public figure, is a lonely man.

A person's heart withers if it does not answer another heart.

Every day you preach to yourself a gospel of your loneliness, inability, and lack of resources or you faithfully preach to yourself the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ.

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.

Deep down, the young are lonelier than the old.

Poverty only tries men's souls. It is loneliness that breaks the heart.

Man's loneliness is but his fear of life.

When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that's when I think life is over.

i felt her absence. it was like waking up one day with no teeth in your mouth. you wouldn't need to run to the mirror to know they were gone

When we finished the kiss she said laughing, I can taste your loneliness - it tastes like vinegar. That annoyed me. Everyone knows loneliness tastes like cold potato soup.

I dont fear death so much as I fear its prologues: loneliness, decrepitude, pain, debilitation, depression, senility. After a few years of those, I imagine death presents like a holiday at the beach.

Oh, loneliness and cheeseburgers are a dangerous mix.

We, unaccustomed to courage exiles from delight live coiled in shells of loneliness until love leaves its high holy temple and comes into our sight to liberate us into life.

you'll never be lonely if you learn to be friend your self

She was unequal to anyone's wistfulness. She had made too little of her life. Its loneliness shamed her like a crime.

Loneliness and hunger were my fortunes of creation.

I have found both freedom and safety in my madness; the freedom of loneliness and the safety from being understood, for those who understand us enslave something in us.

Loneliness is a prerequisite for freedom. Freedom depends on the ability to reflect, and reflection can only begin when one is alone.

So even if the hot loneliness is there, and for 1.6 seconds we sit with that restlessness when yesterday we couldn't sit for even one, that's the journey of the warrior. (68)

The principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television. What happens is that the family 'gets together' alone.

In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.

Too much self-centered attitude, you see, brings, you see, isolation. Result: loneliness, fear, anger. The extreme self-centered attitude is the source of suffering.

Nobody can discover the world for somebody else. Only when we discover it for ourselves does it become common ground and a common bond and we cease to be alone.

We can't underestimate the value of silence. We need to create ourselves, need to spend time alone. If you don't, you risk not knowing yourself and not realizing your dreams.

. . . clumsiness is often mated with a love of solitude.

My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues.

Acting is the greatest answer to my loneliness that I have found.

I understood that in this small space of time we had mutually surrendered our loneliness and replaced it with trust.

The concept of loneliness and exile and self-sufficiency continually bucks me up.

To live a spiritual life we must first find the courage to enter into the desert of loneliness and to change it by gentle and persistent efforts into a garden of solitude.

Loneliness is proof that your innate search for connection is intact.

There is a particular kind of pain, elation, loneliness and terror involved in this kind of madness... It will never end, for madness carves its own reality.

I think one of the most poignant things is unrequited love and loneliness.

The surest cure for vanity is loneliness.

To have passed through life and never experienced solitude is to have never known oneself. To have never known oneself is to have never known anyone.

Real loneliness consists not in being alone, but in being with the wrong person, in the suffocating darkness of a room in which no deep communication is possible.

This loneliness won't leave me alone.

Solitude is different from loneliness, and it doesn't have to be a lonely kind of thing.

We're all torn between the desire for privacy and the fear of loneliness.

The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

A hunted man sometimes wearies of distrust and longs for friendship.

I feel there's a funny little hole in me that wasn't there before, like a splinter in your finger, but this is somewhere above my stomach.

Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man.

If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right.

Use loneliness. Its ache creates urgency to reconnect with the world. Take that aching and use it to propel you deeper into your need for expression - to speak, to say who you are.

Skillful listening is the best remedy for loneliness, loquaciousness, and laryngitis.