Quotes about loneliness




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"No one ever discovers the depths of his own loneliness."

Bernanos, Georges on loneliness
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"Only in a house where one has learnt to be lonely does one have this solicitude for things. One's relation to them, the daily seeing or touching, begins to become love, and to lay one open to pain."

Bowen, Elizabeth on loneliness
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"All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone."

Bruyere, Jean De La on loneliness
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"Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man."

Carlyle, Thomas on loneliness
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"A lonely man is a lonesome thing, a stone, a bone, a stick, a receptacle for Gilbey's gin, a stooped figure sitting at the edge of a hotel bed, heaving copious sighs like the autumn wind."

Cheever, John on loneliness
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"The eternal quest of the human being is to shatter his loneliness."

Cousins, Norman on loneliness
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"You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with."

Dyer, Wayne on loneliness
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"It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely."

Einstein, Albert on loneliness
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"Columbus discovered no isle or key so lonely as himself."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on loneliness
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"There is none more lonely than the man who loves only himself."

Esra, Abraham Ibn on loneliness
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"In cities no one is quiet but many are lonely; in the country, people are quiet but few are lonely."

Fisher, Geoffrey F. on loneliness
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"At the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep and powerful yearning for union with one's lost self."

Francis, Brendan on loneliness
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"One aged man -- one man -- can't fill a house."

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"We enter the world alone, we leave the world alone."

Froude, James A. on loneliness
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"I was never less alone than when by myself."

Gibbon, Edward on loneliness
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"Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate."

Greer, Germaine on loneliness
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"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."

Hammarskjold, Dag on loneliness
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"It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on loneliness
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"On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone."

Joplin, Janis on loneliness
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"The essence of this man [Richard M. Nixon] is loneliness."

Kissinger, Henry on loneliness    Share

"Every time I look at you I get a fierce desire to be lonesome."

Levant, Oscar on loneliness
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"We are never the same with others as when we are alone. We are different, even when we are in the dark with them."

Maeterlinck, Maurice on loneliness
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"It's a terrible thing to be alone -- yes it is -- it is -- but don't lower your mask until you have another mask prepared beneath --as terrible as you like --but a mask."

Mansfield, Katherine on loneliness
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"To most people loneliness is a doom. Yet loneliness is the very thing which God has chosen to be one of the schools of training for His very own. It is the fire that sheds the dross and reveals the gold."

Martin, Bernard M. on loneliness
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"All men are lonely. But sometimes it seems to me that we Americans are the loneliest of all. Our hunger for foreign places and new ways has been with us almost like a national disease. Our literature is stamped with a quality of longing and unrest, and our writers have been great wanderers."

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"In our extreme youth, in our most humiliating sorrow, we think we are alone. When we are older we find that others have suffered too."

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"People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges."

Newton, Joseph Fort on loneliness
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"Man's loneliness is but his fear of life."

O'Neill, Eugene on loneliness
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"A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man --the one he used to be."

Pavese, Cesare on loneliness
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"Strife is better than loneliness."

Proverb, Irish on loneliness
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"Loneliness breaks the spirit."

Proverb, Jewish on loneliness
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"If you are lonely when you are alone, you are in bad company."

Sartre, Jean-Paul on loneliness
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"To live alone is the fate of all great souls."

Schopenhauer, Arthur on loneliness
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"When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone."

Scott, Sir Walter on loneliness
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"It is a rather pleasant experience to be alone in a bank at night."

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"Of my friends I am the only one left."

Terence on loneliness
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"Language has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone, and the word solitude to express the glory of being alone."

Tillich, Paul on loneliness
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