Loneliness Quotes

No matter how lonely you get or how many birth announcements you receive, the trick is not to get frightened. There's nothing wrong with being alone.

Travel is in sad case. It is uncomfortable, it is expensive; it is a source of annoyance to our friends, and of loneliness to ourselves.

We are born helpless. As soon as we are fully conscious we discover loneliness. We need others physically, emotionally, and intellectually. We need them if we are to know anything, even ourselves.

Lonely people, in talking to each other can make each other lonelier.

When people are lonely they stoop to any companionship.

You were my hope during my days of loneliness, my anxiety during moments of doubt, my certainty during moments of faith.

Our selfishness will condemn us to the worst suffering that we ourselves have invented - loneliness.

The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.

[A cat] will make itself the companion of your hours of work, of loneliness, or of sadness.

I need someone. I need to hold somebody close. And I need more than this holding. I need someone to understand how I feel at a time like now. And the understanding must be part of the holding.

When a man is one of a kind, he will be lonely wherever he is.

Everybody has something that chews them up and, for me, that thing was always loneliness. The cinema has the power to make you not feel lonely, even when you are.

Words are loneliness.

It was so quiet, a reservation kind of quiet, where you can hear somebody drinking whiskey on the rocks three miles away.

She had become accustomed to being lonely. She was used to walking alone and to being considered 'different.' She did not suffer too much.

There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.

What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.

Loneliness is, I think, people's biggest fear, whether they are conscious of it or not.

Define loneliness? Yes. It's what we can't do for each other.

I want to be left alone.

I think we often write because we feel a loneliness, and people read for the same reason, and then they come away feeling a little less lonely.

I seem forsaken and alone, / I hear the lion roar; / And every door is shut but one, / And that is Mercy's door.

Fly-fishing is a magic way to recapture the rapture of solitude without the pangs of loneliness.

I, however, cannot force myself to use "meat drugs" to cheat on my loneliness.

Being single isn't the cause of loneliness, and marriage is not necessarily the cure. There are many lonely married people as well.

Where are the people?” resumed the little prince at last. “It’s a little lonely in the desert…” “It is lonely when you’re among people, too,” said the snake.

I'm one of the millions of immigrant children, children of loneliness, wandering between worlds that are at once too old and too new to live in.

In a world characterized by loneliness and despair, we can reach out in love to those around us. Or, as St. Francis once said, we can "preach the gospel all the time; if necessary, use words."

Loneliness had taught Harriet that there was always someone who understood - it was just so often that they were dead, and in a book.

Running and meditation are very personal activities. Therefore they are lonely. This loneliness is one of their best qualities because it strengthens our incentive to motivate ourselves.

the way i need you is a loneliness i cannot bear.

You're only lonely if you don't like the person you are alone with.

That desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love.

The most important thing a writer can have [is] the ability to live with the constant loneliness and a strong sense of revulsion for the banalities of everyday socializing.

One's need for loneliness is not satisfied if one sits at a table alone. There must be empty chairs as well.

With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only a reflection of themselves.

You see, to me, the art of music is listening to it, not playing it. The real art of it is hearing it.

The distances between the stars seem brief by contrast to the distances between each of us and his fellows.

Loneliness is the worst of all tortures, the worst of all sufferings.

I diagnosed my loneliness as premature empty nest syndrome.

Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account.

The worst thing about loneliness is that it brings one face to face with oneself.

I am not meant to be alone and without you who understands.

I need the pain of loneliness to make my imagination work.

Companionship is a foreign concept to some people. They fear it as much as the majority of people fear loneliness.

It's weird to feel like you miss someone you're not even sure you know.

I've never been in love. I've dreamt of it day and night, but my heart is like a fine piano no one can play because the key is lost.

Where a people prays, there is the church; and where the church is; there is never loneliness.

The loneliness of the expatriate is of an odd and complicated kind, for it is inseparable from the feeling of being free, of having escaped.