Man's loneliness is but his fear of life. — Eugene O'Neill
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
Loneliness is the leprosy of the modern world. — Mother Teresa
Loneliness doesn't have much to do with where you are. — Hugh Hefner
There is a loneliness more precious than life. There is a freedom more precious than the world. Infinitely more precious than life and the world is that moment when one is alone with God. — Rumi
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
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
Loneliness is a barrier that prevents one from uniting with the inner self. — Carl Rogers
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty. — Mother Teresa
Loneliness is the first thing which God's eye named not good. — John Milton
Loneliness is emptiness, but happiness is you. — Johnny Cash
Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon. — Woody Allen
The irony of loneliness is that everybody shares it from time to time. — Lil B
Loneliness In Life Image Quotes
For what it's worth: it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of, and, if you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over.
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
Never be a prisoner of your past. It was just a lesson, not a life sentence.
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
There comes a point in your life when you need to stop reading other people's book and write your own.
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
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
Life Can Be Lonely Quotes
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
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
Some days I wish I could go back in life. Not to change anything, but to feel a few things twice.
When you're alone and life is making you lonely, you can always go downtown. — Tony Hatch
If you want to be happy, learn to be alone without being lonely. Learn that being alone does not mean being unhappy. The world is full of plenty of interesting and enjoyable things to do and people who can enrich your life. — Michael Josephson
Lonely people, in talking to each other can make each other lonelier. — Lillian Hellman
Getting knocked down in life is a given. Getting up and moving forward is a choice.
I can be alone without being lonely. In fact, those times of solitude are necessary respite for a beleaguered soul, set upon by the pressures of life. I need to take whatever moments I can to just be still. — Steve Goodier
But painting can be too lonely... I like being with people too much to have ever made that my life's work. — Marie Windsor
Having lived in Utah all of my life, I can tell that in many ways I know of no place more lonely, no place more unfamiliar. When I talk about how it is both a blessing and a burden to have those kinds of roots, it can be terribly isolating, because when you are so familiar, you know the shadow. — Terry Tempest Williams
I don't socialize. I'm kind of a hermit. The life of an actor can be very lonely. — Peter Dinklage
The definition of the word nerd has changed. It's now any attractive person with a hobby. The loneliness component is no longer included. — Gary Gulman
The secret to living well and longer is: eat half, walk double, laugh triple and love without measure.
But there are other words for privacy and independence. They are isolation and loneliness. — Megan Whalen Turner
Loneliness, when accepted, becomes a gift that will lead us to find a purpose in life. — Paulo Coelho
The words 'alone,' 'lonely,' and 'loneliness' are three of the most powerful words in the English language. Those words say that we are human; they are like the words hunger and thirst. But they are not words about the body, they are words about the soul. — Donald Miller
Sometimes the smallest step in the right direction ends up being the biggest step of your life. Tip top if you must, but take the step.
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
Language has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone, and the word solitude to express the glory of being alone. — Paul Tillich
Every deed and every relationship is surrounded by an atmosphere of silence. Friendship needs no words -- it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness. — Dag Hammarskjold
We don't have a word for the opposite of loneliness, but if we did, I could say that's what I want in life. — Marina Keegan
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
Don't wait for everything to be perfect before you decide to enjoy your life.
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
Don't compare your life to others. There's no comparison between the sun and the moon. They shine when it's their time.
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
Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone. — Ferdinand E. Marcos
Feeling Loneliness Quotes
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
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
A season of loneliness and isolation is when the caterpillar gets its wings. Remember that next time you feel alone. — Mandy Hale
Life is like a piano, the white keys represent happiness and the black shows sadness, but as you go through life's journey, remember that the black keys also makes music.
The further you travel, the more you feel part of a big group of people. — Sergei Krikalev
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
Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying. — Arthur C. Clarke
Failure are part of life. If you don't fail, you don't learn. If you don't learn you'll never change.
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
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 And Solitude Quotes
People bullshit and fakeness are the main reasons why I like to be alone. — Megan Fox
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
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
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
The very fine line between loneliness and solitude, reflection; being alone, always appealed to me when I was a kid. — Brad Mehldau
Isolation And Loneliness Quotes
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
The best thing about the bedroom was the bed. I liked to stay in bed for hours, even during the day with covers pulled up to my chin. It was good in there, nothing ever occurred in there, no people, nothing. — Charles Bukowski
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
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
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
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
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
Human tendency to conform, especially when in large groups, is terrifying. Propaganda machines leverage this throughout human history. The way out is to think freely, detached from the divisive narratives of the day that masquerade as universal truths. This often feels lonely. — Lex Fridman
I Feel Lonely Quotes
Why should I feel lonely? is not our planet in the Milky Way? — Henry David Thoreau
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
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
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
Only the lonely know the way I feel tonight. — Roy Orbison
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
I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason. It has been the desperate attempt to escape from torturing memories, from a sense of insupportable loneliness and a dread of some strange impending doom. — Edgar Allan Poe
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
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
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.
Please, don't worry so much. Because in the end, none of us have very long on this Earth. Life is fleeting. — Robin Williams
Even in this world where you’re getting everything you need and having this nice life, there’s still loneliness and longing and disconnection. — Spike Jonze
Yes, in my life, since we must call it so, there were three things, the inability to speak, the inability to be silent, and solitude, that’s what I’ve had to make the best of. — Samuel Beckett
The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself. — Mark Twain
A writer needs loneliness, and he gets his share of it. He needs love, and he gets shared and also unshared love. He needs friendship. In fact, he needs the universe. To be a writer is, in a sense, to be a day-dreamer - to be living a kind of double life. — Jorge Luis Borges
Fatigue dulls the pain, but awakes enticing thoughts of death. So! that is the way in which you are tempted to overcome your loneliness -- by making the ultimate escape from life. -- No! It may be that death is to be your ultimate gift to life: it must not be an act of treachery against it. — Dag Hammarskjold
We, unaccustomed to courage
exiles from delight
live coiled in shells of loneliness
until love leaves its high holy temple
and comes into our sight
to liberate us into life. — Maya Angelou
When I get lonely these days, I think: So BE lonely, Liz. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience. But never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilled yearnings. — Elizabeth Gilbert
The loneliness is when you pick up and move, even if you are not originally from that place, and you have some memories that you want to embrace. Having a life in transit, I feel like you are always looking out the back window. — Ajay Naidu
Negative emotions like loneliness, envy, and guilt have an important role to play in a happy life; they’re big, flashing signs that something needs to change. — Gretchen Rubin
It is wrong to bear children out of need, wrong to use a child to alleviate loneliness, wrong to provide purpose in life by reproducing another copy of oneself. It is wrong also to seek immortality by spewing one's germ into the future as though sperm contains your consciousness! — Irvin D. Yalom
Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience. — Elizabeth Gilbert
Each man lives love in his limited fashion and does not seem to relate the resultant confusion and loneliness to his lack of knowledge about love. — Leo Buscaglia
We may be living at that moment, on the cusp, when we go from being a species that feels a kind of loneliness in the cosmos to actually one sometime in the not too distant future being able to confirm the existence of other intelligent life. — Ann Druyan
The great omission in American life is solitude; not loneliness, for this is an alienation that thrives most in the midst of crowds, but that zone of time and space, free from the outside pressures, which is the incubator of the spirit. — Marya Mannes
I am not without an object in life, but I feel lonely and deserted. — Johanna van Gogh-Bonger
We are so lonely in life that we must ask ourselves if the loneliness of dying is not a symbol of our human existence. — Emile M. Cioran
At the enchanted metropolitan twilight I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others -- poor young clerks who loitered in front of windows waiting until it was time for a solitary restaurant dinner -- young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Touched by an Angel - We, unaccustomed to courage exiles from delight live coiled in shells of loneliness until love leaves its high holy temple and comes into our sight to liberate us into life. Love arrives and in its train come ecstasies old memories of pleasure ancient histories of pain. Yet if we are bold, love strikes away the chains of fear from our souls. We are weaned from our timidity In the flush of love's light we dare be brave And suddenly we see that love costs all we are and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free. — Maya Angelou
I felt the death loneliness that comes at the end of every day that is wasted in your life. — Ernest Hemingway
And yet, these insights of connectedness and oneness, which make us feel so at home in the world, are so difficult to hold onto. And so, inevitably, we wind up living lives of isolation and loneliness. — Irwin Kula
Love is an actual need, an urgent requirement of the heart, he read aloud from an old essay on marriage that he found in his files.Every properly constituted human being who entertains an appreciation of loneliness...and looks forward to happiness and content feels the necessity of loving. Without it, life is unfinished. — Jan Karon
Better to join in with humanity than to set ourselves apart. — Pema Chodron
She didnʹt know if she could carry on by herself, but then, she realized that if this wasnʹt a dream—and dear God, did it feel real—there was no magic ʺstopʺ in real life. If she couldnʹt deal with loneliness in a dream, she never would be able to while waking. — Richelle Mead
I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others--young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
I've definitely had my hard partying moments. I've definitely had the long stretches of time in my personal life where I've felt an intense loneliness and a desperation to feel something real and to have something that truly meant something in my life. — Brett Gelman
I went through a period in my life when I had no friends, when the phone never rang, when I thought I would die from loneliness. I know that the real blessing here isn't that I have a book published, but that I have so many people to thank. — Louise Penny
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