Quotes about loneliness

"We're all in this alone."

Tomlin, Lily on loneliness   

"There is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a dream, a grotesque and foolish dream. Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought --a vagrant thought, a useless thought, a homeless thought, wandering forlorn among the empty eternities!"

Twain, Mark on loneliness
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"Be good and you will be lonely."

Twain, Mark on loneliness
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"We are most of us very lonely in this world; you who have any who love you, cling to them and thank God."

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

Walker, Alice on loneliness   

"When people are lonely they stoop to any companionship."

Wallace, Lew on loneliness
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"I celebrate myself, and sing myself."

Whitman, Walt on loneliness
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"When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone."

Williams, Tennessee on loneliness
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"We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life."

Williams, Tennessee on loneliness
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"The surest cure for vanity is loneliness."

Wolfe, Thomas on loneliness
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"Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it. The way it tunnels into you allows your soul room to grow."

Fitch, Janet on loneliness   

"“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.”"

Welles, Orson on loneliness