Loneliness Quotes

The loneliness is the mother of wisdom.

What is it that we call loneliness. It can’t simply be the absence of others, you can be alone and not lonely, and you can be among people and yet be lonely. So what is it?

My plight has given me a strange kind of wealth, the most important kind. I value each moment that is not spent in pain, desperation, hunger, thirst, or loneliness.

Loneliness, when accepted, becomes a gift that will lead us to find a purpose in life.

We give it up and just look directly with compassion and humor at who we are. Then loneliness is no threat and heartache, no punishment.

Actually loneliness has a kind of fascination; it's a state of egotistical, inner grace that you can achieve only by standing guard on old, forgotten roads that no one travels anymore.

Loneliness is like starvation: you don't realize how hungry you are until you begin to eat.

Loneliness is dangerous ... because if aloneness does not lead to God, it leads to the devil. It leads to the self.

The purpose of fiction is to combat loneliness.

The Seasons Difference is a suave and urbane comedy about several immense abstractions - faith, innocence, loneliness, and love.

Readers and writers are united in their need for solitude, in their pursuit of substance in a time of ever-increasing evanescence: in their reach inward, via print, for a way out of loneliness.

I've noticed that loneliness gets stronger when we try to face it down, but gets weaker when we simply ignore it.

People should never sit alone for too long when they're crying.

...it’s not just the person who fills a house, it’s their I’ll be back later!s, their toothbrushes and unused hats and coats, their belongingnesses.

To the extent that one is responsible for one's life, one is alone.

I also wanted to express the strength of cinema to hide reality, while being entertaining. Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness.

I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.

Over time, loneliness gets inside you and doesn't go away.

I have hardly anything in common with myself and should stand very quietly in a corner, content that I can breathe.

I lay in my bed night after night staring at the ceiling and thinking, Why have I survived the war? Why was I the last person in my immediate family to be alive? I didn’t know.

It is as great a thing to love as it is to be loved. Love is not something that can be wasted.

In all our searching, the only thing we've found that makes the emptiness bearable is each other.

If a man cannot understand the beauty of life, it is probably because life never understood the beauty in him.

It’s how I fill the time when nothing’s happening. Thinking too much, flirting with melancholy.

Sometimes isolation can be shared.

We are born helpless. As soon as we are fully conscious we discover loneliness.

The abhorrence of loneliness is as natural as wanting to live at all.

Of my friends I am the only one left.

Loneliness is a required course for leadership.

You got your glory and you paid for it all, you take your pension in loneliness and alcohol.

One can endure sorrow alone, but it takes two to be glad.

Loneliness, tenderness, high society, notoriety, you fight for the throne and you travel alone.

Loneliness Got a mind of its own The more people around The more you feel alone

Poverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness.

Lonely. I always thought loneliness meant alone, without people. It means something else.

It is a very lonely life that a man leads, who becomes aware of truths before their times.

I believe a lot of disease comes from anxiety, loneliness.

Every human being in that case resembles Christ in his loneliness; and that is the hardest part, that's real hunger.

I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.

Why do we even bother? Why do we make ourselves so open to such easy damage? Is it all loneliness? Is it all fear? Or is it just to experience those narcotic moments of belonging with someone else?

Writing a book is a very lonely business. You are totally cut off from the rest of the world, submerged in your obsessions and memories.

The interesting thing is why we're so desperate for this anesthetic against loneliness.

People drain me, even the closest of friends, and I find loneliness to be the best state in the union to live in.

I am never less alone than when alone.

Loneliness comes with life.

No one ever discovers the depths of his own loneliness.

How tired God must be of guilt and loneliness, for that is all we ever bring to Him.

Hollywood is loneliness beside the swimming pool.

The human soul is not framed for continued proximity, and the result of this enforced neighbourhood is often an appalling loneliness for which the rules of the game forbid assuagement.

My music is very personal. I've created it in solitude. I face a white wall and beller. I like that sound - the expression of loneliness. That's what it's all about.