I was always a lonely person when I was with everyone. — Ernest Hemingway
The irony of loneliness is that everybody shares it from time to time. — Lil B
If we never learn to be alone we will always feel lonely. — Jay Shetty
Loneliness doesn't have much to do with where you are. — Hugh Hefner
Loneliness is emptiness, but happiness is you. — Johnny Cash
A profound unmitigated loneliness is the only truth of life. — R.K. Narayan
Why should I feel lonely? is not our planet in the Milky Way? — Henry David Thoreau
The surest sign of age is loneliness. — Amos Bronson Alcott
Loneliness is not lack of company, loneliness is lack of purpose. — Guillermo Maldonado
We often refer to loneliness as something negative. And we look at it as a weakness. — Jay Shetty
Feeling Loneliness Image Quotes
Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.
What Is Loneliness Quotes
It is dreadful when something weighs on your mind, not to have a soul to unburden yourself to. You know what I mean. I tell my piano the things I used to tell you. — Frederic Chopin
In all of us there is a hunger, marrow-deep, to know our heritage- to know who we are and where we have come from. Without this enriching knowledge, there is a hollow yearning. No matter what our attainments in life, there is still a vacuum, an emptiness, and the most disquieting loneliness. — Alex Haley
Michael Jackson plays the wounded puppy very well. 'I must be the loneliest man in the world'. Well, you're not a man. And the loneliness is self inflicted, so sod off you pathetic puerile pimp. I wonder what color his willy is. — John Lydon
Don't promise when you're happy. Don't reply when you're angry and don't decide when you're sad.
We need new words for what this is, this hunger entering our loneliness like birds, stunning our eyes into rays of hope. we need the flutter that can save us, something that will swirl across the face of what we have become and bring us grace. — Lucille Clifton
Well, Frank, my thoughts are very similar. The vast loneliness up here at the moon is awe-inspiring, and it makes you realize what you have back there on earth. The earth from here is a grand oasis in the big vastness of space. — Jim Lovell
One of the greatest regrets in life is being what others would want you to be, rather than being yourself. — Shannon Alder
How you make others feel about themselves says a lot about you.
An artist is always alone -- if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness. — Henry Miller
An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness. — Henry Miller
The vast loneliness is awe-inspiring and it makes you realize just what you have back there on Earth. — Jim Lovell
Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion. — Joseph Conrad
Feeling Lonely Quotes
You sometimes think you want to disappear, but all you really want is to be found. — Kid Cudi
No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Do not feel lonely on the road of righteousness Because of the fewness of the walkers on it. — Ali ibn Abi Talib
Some days I wish I could go back in life. Not to change anything, but to feel a few things twice.
The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers. You can fill your life up with ideas and still go home lonely. All you really have that really matters are feelings. That's what music is to me.” – Janis Joplin — Janis Joplin
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be. — Anne Frank
Stay close to people who feel like sunlight.
We are born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Everything in-between is a gift. — Yul Brynner
I go in solitude, so as not to drink out of everybody's cistern. When I am among the many I live as the many do, and I do not think I really think; after a time it always seems as if they want to banish myself from myself and rob me of my soul. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony. — Douglas Coupland
Music means communication to me. I say 'listen you people out there, listen to my music, let's be one.' Music is a friend to me when I am lonely, when I am blue. You can't define music 'cause music is cosmos and it knows no barrier or definition. You have to feel music to dig it. — Robert Plant
Loneliness Quotes
My solitude doesn’t depend on the presence or absence of people; on the contrary, I hate who steals my solitude without, in exchange, offering me true company. — Friedrich Nietzsche
We have all known the long loneliness, and we have found that the answer is community. — Dorothy Day
Great eagles fly alone; great lions hunt alone; great souls walk alone-alone with God. Such loneliness is hard to endure, and impossible to enjoy unless God accompanied. Prophets are lone men; they walk alone, pray alone and God makes them alone. — Leonard Ravenhill
There comes a day when you realize turning the page is the best feeling in the world, because you realize there is so much more to the book than the page you were stuck on.
Be a loner. That gives you time to wonder, to search for the truth. Have holy curiosity. Make your life worth living. — Albert Einstein
If all the beasts were gone, men would die from a great loneliness of spirit, for whatever happens to the beasts also happens to the man. All things are connected. Whatever befalls the Earth befalls the sons of the Earth. — Chief Seattle
We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread, but there are many more dying for a little love. — Mother Teresa
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
My alone feels so good, I'll only have you if you're sweeter than my solitude. — Warsan Shire
To be a lighthouse, you must be strong enough to resist every kind of storm, to every kind of loneliness and you must have a powerful light inside you! — Mehmet Murat Ildan
Loneliness In Life Quotes
The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence. — Thomas Wolfe
Why do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness? — Haruki Murakami
You will have bad times, but they will always wake you up to the stuff you weren't paying attention to. — Robin Williams
Some people feel the rain, others just get wet.
Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying. — Arthur C. Clarke
The man who let the love of his life pass him by will end up alone with his regrets and all the sighs in the world won't soothe his soul. — Yasmina Khadra
I really love baseball. The guys and the game, and I love the challenge of describing things. The only thing I hate - and I know you have to be realistic and pay the bills in this life - is the loneliness on the road. — Vin Scully
A King only bows down to his Queen.
I liked the feeling of winning. It made me feel like I mattered. All I’ve ever wanted in my life is to matter. — Alexi Pappas
Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness. — Pedro Almodovar
The price for living the life I have -- for any serious, devoted person, is that at times one must live alone, or feel alone. I think loneliness is associated in many people's minds when they think about success. — Helen Frankenthaler
There's a sorrow and pain in everyone's life, but every now and then there's a ray of light that melts the loneliness in your heart and brings comfort like hot soup and a soft bed. — Hubert Selby, Jr.
I Feel Lonely Quotes
I like the idea of being alone. I like the idea of often being alone in all aspects of my life. I like to feel lonely. I like to need things. — Robert Plant
I've also seen that great men are often lonely. This is understandable, because they have built such high standards for themselves that they often feel alone. But that same loneliness is part of their ability to create. — Yousuf Karsh
Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but I feel more lonely in a crowed room with boring people than I feel on my own. — Henry Rollins
It's better to cry than to be angry; because anger hurts others, while tears flow silently through the soul and cleanses the heart.
When I'm feeling sad, or lonely, and I don't know what I'm doing and I don't know where I'm going, I imagine the Cool Awesome Future Version of Myself just telling my present self, "It's okay. You just gotta grab that giraffe by the ears and ride it on out." — Jenna Marbles
I never feel lonely if I've got a book - they're like old friends. Even if you're not reading them over and over again, you know they are there. And they're part of your history. They sort of tell a story about your journey through life. — Emilia Fox
Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you. — Rumi
A person who feels appreciated will always do more than is expected.
It's 2 o'clock in the morning and I just can't sleep Outside the rain is pourin', I'm lonely as can be Maybe 2night'll be different than the nights before I need 2 feel someone beside me, I can't be alone no more — Prince
When I was younger I felt lonely... In terms of my thought processes. I had the constant feeling that I thought differently to everyone around me. So, I suppose I felt lonely for a home. I didn't know where I wanted to be, but I knew I wasn't there yet. — Lana Del Rey
We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. — Henry David Thoreau
I think, as you're growing up, your emotions are just as deep as they are when you're an adult. You're ability to feel lonely, longing, confused or angry are just as deep. We don't feel things more as we get older. — Spike Jonze
Sadness And Loneliness Quotes
If your beliefs are stressful and you question them, you come to see that they aren't true - whereas prior to questioning, you absolutely believe them. How can you live in joy when you're believing thoughts that bring on sadness, frustration, anger, alienation, and loneliness? — Byron Katie
Sometimes you weren't supposed to share pain. Sometimes it was best just to deal with it alone. — Sarah Addison Allen
One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul, and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. — Vincent Van Gogh
Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not. Time takes it all, time bears it away, and in the end there is only darkness. Sometimes we find others in that darkness, and sometimes we lose them there again. — Stephen King
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. — Vita Sackville-West
One leaf left on a branch and not a sound of sadness or despair. One leaf left on a branch and no unhappiness. One leaf left all by itself in the air and it does not speak of loneliness or death. One leaf and it spends itself in swaying mildly in the breeze. — David Ignatow
Deepen you knowledge of Jesus which ends loneliness, overcomes sadness and uncertainty, gives real meaning to life, curbs passions, exalts ideals, expands energies in charity, brings light into decisive choices. Let Christ be for you the Way, the Truth, and the Life. — Pope John Paul II
I was in L.A. in '08. It was a cold Saturday night. I had spread my phone number out to a score of women and was just indulging this sweet, sad, elegiac, bale loneliness - don't tell me you haven't been there. — James Ellroy
You really come to life on stage but outside - this is a bit of a sad clown cliché - there is that element of loneliness you get from travelling and being on the road. Stand-ups can bring a lot of that to a dramatic role and make it work for them. — Doc Brown
I was sad to leave Europe in 1890, after my student days in Germany... But then, once back in New York, I experienced an intense longing for Europe, for its vital tradition of music, theatre, art, craftsmanship... I felt bewildered and lonely. How was I to use myself? — Alfred Stieglitz
Isolation And Loneliness Quotes
A season of loneliness and isolation is when the caterpillar gets its wings. Remember that next time you feel alone. — Mandy Hale
Given the proper suggestion, the Subconscious Mind will manifest success from failure, health from disease, prosperity from poverty, friendship and love from loneliness and isolation. For nothing is impossible to the Subconscious Mind and it operates entirely by suggestion. — Uell Stanley Andersen
If you go deeper and deeper into your own heart, you'll be living in a world with less fear, isolation and loneliness. — Sharon Salzberg
This is how the world changes - little by little, table by table, meal by meal, hour by hour. This is how we chip away at isolation, loneliness, fear. This is how we connect, in big and small ways - we do it around the table. — Shauna Niequist
We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life. — Tennessee Williams
No one knows loneliness like an atheist. When an average person feels isolated, he can call through the depths of his soul to One who knows him and sense an answer. An atheist cannot allow himself that luxury, for he has to crush the urge and remind himself of its absurdity. — Jeffrey Lang
Isolation and loneliness create the conditions for rapid aging. The key is to stay connected and open to new relationships throughout your life. — Deepak Chopra
Though we are all human beings, we have built walls between ourselves and our neighbors through nationalism, through race, caste, and class - which again breeds isolation, loneliness. — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness? — Haruki Murakami
I think I'm Swedish because I like to live here on this island. You can't imagine the loneliness and isolation in this country. In that way, I'm very Swedish - I don't dislike to be alone. — Ingmar Bergman
Never be afraid to tread the path alone. Know which is your path and follow it wherever it may lead you; do not feel you have to follow in someone else's footsteps. — Eileen Caddy
I feel what they feel. And people who listen to me know that, and it makes them feel like they're not alone. — Nina Simone
Observe, record, tabulate, communicate. Use your five senses. Learn to see, learn to hear, learn to feel, learn to smell, and know that by practice alone you can become expert. — William Osler
Sometimes I get a little sad, and I feel like being alone. Then I talk to my cat about it, and he reminds me I’m James Franco. Then we dance. — James Franco
Aloneness is a state of being, whereas loneliness is a state of feeling. It's like the difference between being broke and being poor. — Townes Van Zandt
That's the thing about being alone. It's not that you feel like you don't have anybody. It's like you feel like nobody has you. — Theo Von
Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Be much alone with God, and take time to get thoroughly acquainted. Converse over everything with Him. Unburden yourself wholly -every thought, feeling, wish, plan, doubt- to Him...He wants not merely to be on good terms with you, but to be intimate. — Horatius Bonar
To me, the sea is like a person -- like a child that I've known a long time. It sounds crazy, I know, but when I swim in the sea I talk to it. I never feel alone when I'm out there. — Gertrude Ederle
People bullshit and fakeness are the main reasons why I like to be alone. — Megan Fox
Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape. — Bell Hooks
I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. — Henry David Thoreau
I will fill myself with the desert and the sky. I will be stone and stars, unchanging and strong and safe. The desert is complete; it is spare and alone, but perfect in its soltitude. I will be the desert. — Kiersten White
One can acquire everything in solitude except character. — Stendhal
When we cannot bear to be alone, it means we do not properly value the only companion we will have from birth to death-ourselves. — Eda LeShan
Let those who would affect singularity with success first determine to be very virtuous, and they will be sure to be very singular. — Charles Caleb Colton
A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company — Charles Evans Hughes
Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them. — Jodi Picoult
I Am Lonely Quotes
I am a lover without a lover. I am lovely and lonely and I belong deeply to myself. — Warsan Shire
I cannot keep quiet even when I am a lone voice. — Mahathir Mohamad
I am never lonely when I am reading the Bible. Nothing dissolves loneliness like a session with God's Word. — Billy Graham
I am truly a "lone traveler" and have never belonged to my country, my home, my friends, or even my immediate family, with my whole heart. — Albert Einstein
I am a fighter. I believe in that which is right, and the truth is, I have been the Lone Ranger for the past thirty years and I will not give up the fight. I love my public and I'll fight for you. I'll continue to make personal appearances for my thousands of fans. — Clayton Moore
I don't like to be labeled as lonely just because I am alone. — Delta Burke
In deep confusion, in great despair, when I reach out for him, he is there. When I am lonely as I can be, then I know God shines his light on me. — Van Morrison
All great and precious things are lonely. — John Steinbeck
This world that I live in is empty and cold/the loneliness cuts me and tortures my soul. — Sayings
The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely. — Charlotte Bronte
Everyone says love hurts, but that is not true. Loneliness hurts. Rejection hurts. Losing someone hurts. Envy hurts. Everyone gets these things confused with love, but in reality love is the only thing in this world that covers up all pain and makes someone feel wonderful again. Love is the only thing in this world that does not hurt. — Mesa Selimovic
Each one of us has lived through some devastation, some loneliness, some weather superstorm or spiritual superstorm, when we look at each other we must say, I understand. I understand how you feel because I have been there myself. We must support each other and empathize with each other because each of us is more alike than we are unalike. — Maya Angelou
Snuggle in God's arms. When you are hurting, when you feel lonely, left out. let Him cradle you, comfort you, reassure you of His all-sufficient power and love. — Kay Arthur
The further you travel, the more you feel part of a big group of people. — Sergei Krikalev
I drink out of desperation. Life is too dreary to endure. The misery, loneliness, crampedness - they're heartbreaking.[...] What feelings do you suppose a man has when he realizes that he will never know happiness or glory as long as he lives? Hard work. All that amounts to is food for the wild beasts of hunger. — Osamu Dazai
It is very hard to show up as the person you want to be when you are surrounded by an environment that makes you feel like a person you aren’t. — Brianna Wiest
I usually feel that I prefer to hide from people. — Giannis Antetokounmpo
Sometimes I feel... that my cross is heavy beyond endurance... My heart seems worn out and bruised beyond repair, and in my deep loneliness I often wish to be gone, but God knows best, and I want to do every ounce of work He wants me to do. — Charles Studd
Feeling close and complete with someone else – the emotional equivalent of finding a home. — Amir Levine
Loneliness sometimes gives me a quantity of creativeness - you're drinking another glass of wine and you're feeling even worse. Art doesn't work without pain; art also exists for compensating pain. — Till Lindemann
I get an audience personally involved in a song - because I'm involved myself. It's not something I do deliberately: I can't help myself. If the song is a lament at the loss of love, I get an ache in my gut. I feel the loss myself and I cry out the loneliness, the hurt and the pain that I feel. — Frank Sinatra
Loneliness is the first thing which God's eye named not good. — John Milton
I think the thing is that you're very affected by your early life, and I think that if you ever had that feeling of outsider, or loneliness or whatever, it just doesn't leave you. You can be happy and successful, whatever, but I think that thing stays inside of you. It doesn't ever really leave you. You kind of always will have that. — Tim Burton
Some feelings sink so deep into the heart that only loneliness can help you find them again. Some truths are so painful that only shame can help you live with them. Some things are so sad that only your soul can do the crying for them. — Gregory David Roberts
I'm lonely. What kind of loneliness? Every kind. I feel disconnected. Abandoned. As always. Repetition. So what, my love? So what? At first, I just wanted to run away. Now I have no where else to run to, nothing to run from. I don't belong anywhere, I don't want to go anywhere, I just want to be happy. — Daul Kim
When the sparrow sings its final refrain, the hush is felt nowhere more deeply than in the heart of man. — Don Williams
Believe me, I know what it's like to feel all alone...the worst kind of loneliness in the world is isolation that comes from being misunderstood, it can make people lose their grasp on reality. - Sienna Brooks — Dan Brown
I'll never forget how the depression and loneliness felt good and bad at the same time. Still does. — Henry Rollins
To be lonely is to feel unwanted and unloved, and therefor unloveable. Loneliness is a taste of death. No wonder some people who are desperately lonely lose themselves in mental illness or violence to forget the inner pain. — Jean Vanier
It is normal to feel alone at the start of any journey. It’s the people who you meet along your travels that make the trip more interesting. — Isaac Mashman
There's nothing terribly wrong with feeling lost, so long as that feeling precedes some plan on your part to actually do something about it. Too often a person grows complacent with their disillusionment, perpetually wearing their "discomfort" like a favorite shirt. — Jhonen Vasquez
The loneliness you feel with another person, the wrong person, is the loneliest of all. — Deb Caletti
In misery's darkest cavern known, His useful care was ever nigh Where hopeless anguish pour'd his groan, And lonely want retir'd to die. — Samuel Johnson
I feel the same way about solitude as some people feel about the blessing of the church. It's the light of grace for me. I never close my door behind me without the awareness that I am carrying out an act of mercy toward myself. — Peter Høeg
God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly. — Paul Valery
There is absolutely no point in sitting around and feeling sorry for yourself. The great power you have is to let go ... focus on what you have, no that which has been mean or unkindly removed. — Minnie Driver
When we truly realize that we are all alone is when we need others the most. — Ronald Anthony Cross
. . . the number of prayers we say may contribute to our happiness, but the number of prayers we answer may be of greater importance. Let us open our eyes and see the heavy hearts, notice the loneliness and despair; let us feel the silent prayers of others around us; and let us be an instrument in the hands of the Lord to answer those prayers. — Dieter F. Uchtdorf
When everyone leaves you it's loneliness you feel, when you leave everyone else it's solitude. — Alfred Polgar
Green makes me think of silence, or maybe it's loneliness. I get the feeling of a terribly distant star. — Kobo Abe
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