Top 77 Lonelier Quotes
#1. There is no lonelier person than the one who lives with a spouse with whom he or she cannot communicate.
Margaret Mead
#2. She said that whenever she feels the old insidious chill of loneliness beginning to creep back into her life, she picks up the phone and calls someone who may be lonelier than she is.
Norman Vincent Peale
#4. I've never woken to another's body in the same bed, not since I was a child. There is something about it that makes waking up alone seem unnatural. Man is not meant to be alone, yet men like us (or maybe men like me) appear to be lonelier than others.
Aleksandr Voinov
#5. I don't think there's a lonelier feeling than being with someone who has stopped caring.
Alexis Harrington
#6. Creativity is essentially a lonely art. An even lonelier struggle. To some a blessing. To others a curse. It is in reality the ability to reach inside yourself and drag forth from your very soul an idea.
Lou Dorfsman
#7. It's better this way. A little lonelier but better.
Lisa Schroeder
#8. It flew away, whatever it was, and now he squinted up and remembered that it was the first time in a long spell he had seen the sky, and he thought: It is longer, lonelier and lovelier than any of my prayers.
Wilfrido D. Nolledo
#9. She just couldn't bear to listen to the echo inside her chest. Nothing was lonelier than the limping beat of half a heart.
Samantha Sotto
#10. There's nothing lonelier than a hand on glass. Maybe because it's so rarely reciprocated.
Julie Buxbaum
#11. At our age, surely there are better things to sustain us, to sustain a marriage, than the brief flame of passion?" ... "You are mistaken, Ernest," she said at last. "There is only the passionate spark. Without it, two people living together may be lonelier than if they lived quite alone.
Helen Simonson
#12. The pain of losing is diverting. So is the thrill of winning. Winning, however, is lonelier, as those you've won money from are not likely to commiserate with you. Winning takes getting used to.
David Mamet
#13. Film is a much lonelier process than theatre. You really don't have any rehearsal time in film. You don't shape it together ... with theatre, there is a complete kind of family atmosphere. The sociable side of this business is the theatrical side, it really isn't the film side.
Keira Knightley
#14. A spirit that was once a man could hardly feel stranger or lonelier, going unrecognized among mankind, than I feel.
Charles Dickens
#15. Because sometimes it's being in a crowd that makes you feel lonelier than when you're alone.
Winna Efendi
#17. There are few lonelier sights than a good comedian being funny in a movie that doesn't know what funny is.
Roger Ebert
#18. Am I lonelier now
Than when my sad imagination
Had him disappear?
Heart torn,
Loosing tiny droplets
Of sorrow
No tape can measure
No needle can mend.
Stasia Ward Kehoe
#19. Twice I'd come home as they were finishing, and, honestly, I cannot think of a lonelier sound on a Saturday night than one's roommate having a giant orgasm and then making an embarrassed sssh sound, realizing that maybe through her pleasure she'd heard the front door open and close.
Aimee Bender
#20. I've been here before, I tell myself. I've been lonelier than this, more hopeless than this, more desperate than this. I've been here before and I survived. I can get through this.
Tahereh Mafi
#21. What could be lonelier than trying to communicate?
Denis Johnson
#22. There is no lonelier man than a writer when he's writing, except the suicide.
Ernest Hemingway,
#24. When I breathe,
This sound in my chest
Lonelier than the winter wind
Takuboku Ishikawa
#25. If you are the type of person who thinks too much about stuff then there is nothing lonelier in the world than being surrounded by a load of people on a different wavelength.
Matt Haig
#26. Deep down, the young are lonelier than the old.' I read that in a book somewhere and it's stuck in my head. Maybe it's true. Maybe it's not true. More likely, the young and the old are lonely in different ways, in their own ways ...
Jonathan Safran Foer
#27. A teacher I once had told me that the older you get, the lonelier you become and the deeper the love you need. Loneliness creates an appetite for deeper love, and the entire predicament deepens. And as a result of suffering, your capacity to love deeply increases.
Leonard Cohen
#28. I don't want to be married just to be married. I can't think of anything lonelier than spending the rest of my life with someone I can't talk to, or worse, someone I can't be silent with.
Mary Ann Shaffer
#29. Many a housewife staring at the back of her husband's newspaper, or listening to his breathing in bed is lonelier than any spinster in a rented room.
Germaine Greer
#30. Every second the city gets smaller and smaller, only you feel it's really you getting smaller and smaller and lonelier and lonelier, rushing away from all those lights and that excitement at about a million miles and hour.
Sylvia Plath
#31. Lying in bed next to the wrong woman is a million times lonelier than lying in bed alone.
Sofia Grey
#32. Mostly, I just think Mr. P is a lonely old man who used to be a lonely young man. And for some reason I don't understand, lonely white people love to hang around lonelier Indians.
Sherman Alexie
#34. The more man realises his humanity, the lonelier he feels.
Ali Shariati
#35. If you want to feel the truest spirit of Christmas, go out and find someone sadder than you, lonelier than you, poorer than you ... and give what you can in a smile, in time, in compassion. The best Christmases always require the gift of self.
Toni Sorenson
#36. He was surrounded by people who loved him, yet he had never felt lonelier.
Thea Harrison
#37. She was lonely without Blunt, but she was lonelier at the idea that the world went on as though she had not loved him.
Colm Toibin
#38. There is in certain living souls a quality of loneliness unspeakable, so great it must be shared as company is shared by lesser beings. Such a loneliness is mine; so know by this that in immensity there is one lonelier than you.
Theodore Sturgeon
#39. They say it's lonely at the top. It must be even lonelier at the tippy top.
Demetri Martin
#40. This silence here was somewhat heavier, lonelier than the preceding one. The former was an elevator silence; this one was a walking-through-the-woods-by-night silence.
Edgar Cantero
#41. I felt isolated in my misery. I became lonely, so I drank a bit, and then a bit more, and then I became lonelier, because no one likes being around a drunk. I lost and I drank and I drank and I lost.
Paula Hawkins
#42. There was nothing lonelier than a man with a million friends.
William Shatner
#43. Surprise!
Adolescence is not an exciting adventure. It's actually very boring and lonelier than you could ever imagine.
Frank Warren
#44. I had known loneliness before, and emptiness upon the moor, but I had never been a NOTHING, a nothing floating on a nothing, known by nothing, lonelier and colder than the space between the stars. It was more frightening than being dead.
Peter Carey
#45. At that moment i felt lonelier than i'd ever felt before, and that loneliness seemed to squat in my lungs and crush all but my most minimal breathing. There was nothing left to say. Not about this. Not about anything.
Mitch Albom
#46. Back at home I spent so much time on my own, but never once felt lonely. Here, even though I see hundreds more people each day, I've never felt lonelier.
Giovanna Fletcher
#47. The only thing more pitiful than a middle-aged punk is a white Rastafarian. I did meet one of those once, and he was lonelier than I was.
Louis De Bernieres
#48. Lonely people, in talking to each other, can make each other lonelier.
Lillian Hellman
#49. Life without a phone is riskier, lonelier, more vivid.
Eloisa James
#50. The only thing lonelier than travelling is standing still.
Sam Gayton
#51. He was alone in an airless, partially disabled ship, all communication with Earth cut off. There was not another human being within half a billion miles. And yet, in one very real sense, he was not alone. Before he could be safe, he must be lonelier still.
Arthur C. Clarke
#52. Nothing is lonelier or more disorienting than insomnia.
Donna Tartt
#53. That is why we have to make room in our lives for people who may sometimes disappoint or exasperate us. If we hold our friends to a standard of perfection, or if they do that to us, we will end up far lonelier than we want to be.
Harold S. Kushner
#54. I think he is condemned by himself to loneliness. God is One: he was, he is, he will be always One. One is so lonely. Maybe that is why he created human beings
to feel less lonely. But as human beings betray his creation, he may become even lonelier.
Elie Wiesel
#55. Mayella Ewell must have been the loneliest person in the world. She was even lonelier than Boo Radley, who had not been out of the house in twenty-five years.
Harper Lee
#56. I was lonelier than I should be, for a woman in love, or half in love.
Edna O'Brien
#57. There is no one lonelier than God!
Osho
#58. But at least this got Mouth thinking about how his loneliness wasn't unique. We all suffered. And I guess we all had good times too. Man - if every person who ever felt lonely killed himself, the world would be littered with corpses. And far lonelier.
David Lubar
#59. Being with the wrong person is lonelier than being on your own. Or it's as lonely, in a different way,
Mhairi McFarlane
#60. I do think you get lonelier and lonelier being an artist as you get older.
Gary Hume
#61. Just because you think the path that's right for you might be lonelier, longer or less destined for traditional success than paths taken by others, don't be afraid to take it. If you choose your means well you will end up in the right place.
Beau Biden
#62. When you're surrounded by all these people, it can be lonelier than when you're by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don't feel like you can trust anyone or talk to anybody, you feel like you're really alone.
Fiona Apple
#64. Few American presidents have been unhappier or lonelier in office than Woodrow Wilson.
Jill Lepore
#65. We have never been more detached from one another, or lonelier. In a world consumed by ever more novel modes of socializing, we have less and less actual society. We live in an accelerating contradiction: The more connected we become, the lonelier we are.
Stephen Marche
#66. There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.
Ernest Hemingway,
#67. It was disconcerting that being in love felt lonelier than lonelines.
Emily Maguire
#68. Don't let ignorance blind you. Open your eyes, heart and your mind. And if you're feeling alone, know that the world can be a lonely place, but it would be lonelier without you in it.
Hayley Williams
#69. Opera and church recitals are options, of course, but they require some initiative and arrangement: tickets and schedules and so forth. I am not good at that; it's rather like fixing a three-course meal for yourself - perhaps even lonelier.
Joseph Brodsky
#70. Just as a fever makes cold feel colder, love can make loneliness feel lonelier.
Andrea Cremer
#71. Living with someone you love can be lonelier than living entirely alone, if the one that you love doesn't love you.
Tennessee Williams
#72. Seldom can the heart be lonely,
If it seek a lonelier still;
Self-forgetting, seeking only
Emptier cups of love to fill.
Frances Ridley Havergal
#73. It is not, Dear, because I am alone, For I am lonelier when the rest are near, But that my place against your heart has grown Too dear to dream of when you are not here.
E. Nesbit
#74. I've always been fascinated and stared at maps for hours as a kid. I've especially been most intrigued by the uninhabited or lonelier places on the planet. Like Greenland, for instance, or just recently flying over Alaska and a chain of icy, mountainous islands, uninhabited.
Andrew Bird
#75. The greater the proportion of online interactions, the lonelier you are,
Anonymous
#77. It must really be a lonelier journey than anyone could imagine. Cutting through absolute darkness, encountering nothing but the occasional hydrogen atom. Flying blindly into the abyss, believing therein lie the answers to the mysteries of the universe.
Makoto Shinkai
