Loneliness Quotes

Most popular loneliness quotes

Strife is better than loneliness.
— Irish proverb

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What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be.

solitude

At the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep and powerful yearning for union with one's lost self. - Brendan Francis quote.
At the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep and powerful yearning for union with one's lost self.
Loneliness and the feeling of being uncared for and unwanted are the greatest poverty. - Mother Teresa quote.
Loneliness and the feeling of being uncared for and unwanted are the greatest poverty.
Of all things that can happen to us, triumph is the most difficult to endure when we are alone. Deprived of witnesses, it shrinks at once. - Gabrielle Roy quote.
Of all things that can happen to us, triumph is the most difficult to endure when we are alone. Deprived of witnesses, it shrinks at once.

success

Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It has created the word "loneliness" to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word "solitude" to express the glory of being alone. - Paul Tillich quote.
Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It has created the word "loneliness" to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word "solitude" to express the glory of being alone.

solitude

Man loves company—even if it is only that of a small burning candle. - G. C. Lichtenberg quote.
Man loves company—even if it is only that of a small burning candle.
One form of loneliness is to have a memory and no one to share it with.

memory

They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts. - Sir Philip Sidney quote.
They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts.
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty. - Mother Teresa quote.
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone. - Tennessee Williams quote.
When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married. - Cyril Connolly quote.
The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

solitude marriage

The surest sign of age is loneliness. - A. Bronson Alcott quote.
The surest sign of age is loneliness.

age

Remember never to say that you are alone; nay, God is within, and your genius is within. - Epictetus quote.
Remember never to say that you are alone; nay, God is within, and your genius is within.
How we need another soul to cling to, another body to keep us warm.  To rest and trust; to give your soul in confidence: I need this, I need someone to pour myself into. - Sylvia Plath quote.
How we need another soul to cling to, another body to keep us warm.  To rest and trust; to give your soul in confidence: I need this, I need someone to pour myself into.

companionship

Our language has wisely sensed these two sides of man's being alone.  It has created the word "loneliness" to express the pain of being alone.  And it has created the word "solitude" to express the glory of being alone. - Paul Tillich quote.
Our language has wisely sensed these two sides of man's being alone.  It has created the word "loneliness" to express the pain of being alone.  And it has created the word "solitude" to express the glory of being alone.

solitude

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone.  Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible. - Carl Jung quote.
Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.

communication

Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself. - Hermann Hesse quote.
Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.

destiny

Loneliness comes about when I am alone without being able to keep myself company. - Hannah Arendt quote.
Loneliness comes about when I am alone without being able to keep myself company.
No one ever discovers the depths of his own loneliness. - Georges Bernanos quote.
No one ever discovers the depths of his own loneliness.
If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. - Anton Chekhov quote.
If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.
What does it matter if a man is lonely?  One does not die of it.
What loneliness is more lonely than distrust? - George Eliot quote.
What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

trust

But who can count the beatings of the lonely heart?
A person can be lonely even if he is loved by many people, because he is still not the "One and Only" to anyone. - Anne Frank quote.
A person can be lonely even if he is loved by many people, because he is still not the "One and Only" to anyone.
She had encountered one of the more devastating kinds of loneliness in existence: that of being in close contact with someone to whom she was a nonperson, and who thereby rendered her invisible and of no consequence. - Dorothy Gilman quote.
She had encountered one of the more devastating kinds of loneliness in existence: that of being in close contact with someone to whom she was a nonperson, and who thereby rendered her invisible and of no consequence.
Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate. - Germaine Greer quote.
Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate.
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. - Dag Hammarskjold quote.
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.
Alone.  But loneliness can be a communion. - Dag Hammarskjold quote.
Alone.  But loneliness can be a communion.
I think it's very important to be alone. Loneliness is just an idea that, I'm afraid, has something to do with self-pity. - Helen Hayes quote.
I think it's very important to be alone. Loneliness is just an idea that, I'm afraid, has something to do with self-pity.
No one should ever be afraid alone. It is the worst form of loneliness and the most corrosive.
It is loneliness that makes the loudest noise.  This is as true of men as of dogs. - Eric Hoffer quote.
It is loneliness that makes the loudest noise.  This is as true of men as of dogs.
Loneliness is not in being alone, for then ministering spirits come to soothe and bless—loneliness is to endure the presence of one who does not understand. - Elbert Hubbard quote.
Loneliness is not in being alone, for then ministering spirits come to soothe and bless—loneliness is to endure the presence of one who does not understand.
There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage. - Erica Jong quote.
There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.

marriage

Man's loneliness is but his fear of life! - Eugene O'Neill quote.
Man's loneliness is but his fear of life!
Every loneliness is a pinnacle. - Ayn Rand quote.
Every loneliness is a pinnacle.
To comfort any mortal against loneliness, one other is enough. - Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings quote.
To comfort any mortal against loneliness, one other is enough.
Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is richness of self. - May Sarton quote.
Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is richness of self.
It is the privilege of loneliness; in privacy one may do as one chooses. - Virginia Woolf quote.
It is the privilege of loneliness; in privacy one may do as one chooses.
Loneliness is a prerequisite for freedom. Freedom depends on the ability to reflect, and reflection can only begin when one is alone.