Quotes about Loneliness

"The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself."
-Mark Twain

"Oh, loneliness and cheeseburgers are a dangerous mix."
-Matt Groening

"When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone; nay, God is within, and your genius is within. And what need have they of light to see what you are doing?"
-Epictetus

"People drain me, even the closest of friends, and I find loneliness to be the best state in the union to live in."
-Margaret Cho

"Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate."
-Germaine Greer

"They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts."
-Sir Philip Sidney

"If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right."
-Jules Renard

"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."
-John Cheever

"Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for."
-Dag Hammarskjold

"Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up."
-Pearl S. Buck

"The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration."
-Pearl S. Buck

"Loneliness is the first thing which God's eye named, not good."
-John Milton

"To be alone is to be different, to be different is to be alone."
-Suzanne Gordon

"All we ask is to be let alone."
-Jefferson Davis

"To be an adult is to be alone."
-Jean Rostand

"Loneliness is the universal problem of rich people."
-Joan Collins

"Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the worst poverty of all."
-Mother Teresa

"The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved."
-Mother Teresa

"Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things; knows not the livid loneliness of fear."
-Amelia Earhart

"Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon."
-Woody Allen

"What we don't let out traps us. We think, No one else feels this way, I must be crazy. So we don't say anything. And we become enveloped by a deep loneliness, not knowing where our feelings come from or what to do with them. Why do I feel this way? L."
-Sabrina Ward Harrison

"I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen."
-Carson Mccullers

"Loneliness is about the scariest thing out there."
-Joss Whedon

"What is man without the beasts? If all the beasts were gone, man would die from a great loneliness of spirit. For whatever happens to the beasts, soon happens to man. All things are connected."
-Chief Seattle

"We have all known the long loneliness, and we have found that the answer is community."
-Dorothy Day

"Loneliness has been described as a chronic disease with no redeeming features. But it is very important for the survival of our species. It contributes to our humanity."
-John Cacioppo

"When everyone leaves you it's loneliness you feel, when you leave everyone else it's solitude."
-Alfred Polgar

"As we get older, bereavement, illness, physical impairments, as well as living far away from family members, could cause any one of us to be isolated - which can lead to loneliness and ill health in older people."
-Gordon Lishman