Top 100 Quotes About Loneliness
#1. Some guarded their children when they saw me, as though congenital defects and loneliness were contagious, even at a distance and through glass.
Edward Fahey
#2. Everything is freedom and everything is loneliness. Make your choice and let the rest fall away.
Ariel Gore
#3. Communion over loneliness. Death not an end, but a beginning. At home in the absolute - and absolutely unknown - future.
James Carroll
#4. Dad? Dad, no. No. I can't. I can't. Why are you saying these things?"
"Because I can't stand watching all that loneliness that lives inside you.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
#5. ... and now and then we could look up and give each other a thought,
because I think he could have beautiful thoughts,
and we could just let each other be less lonely in our loneliness.
Charlotte Eriksson
#6. It would have been a depressing place on a wet evening. Seen under a morning sun, with a fresh wind blowing, and the air filled with the crying of birds, there was something fine and fresh and clean about its loneliness. The children felt their spirits rise.
C.S. Lewis
#7. I started putting down my thoughts on paper out of loneliness while I was studying in America. I was very close to my grandfather, and when he died, I couldn't visit home. I started scribbling those thoughts.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
#8. Because of my childhood where I was constantly by myself, I always feel lonely. I have a lot of people that I absolutely love and I know love me but I can't get rid of that feeling of loneliness no matter who I'm with - even with my children.
Natalia Vodianova
#9. But I know too that if we ever make a world without shadow, if the chemists and scientists and psychologists succeed in abolishing fear, pain, loneliness, death, some of us will find life so intolerable we will probably blow out our brains out of sheer boredom.
MacDonald Harris
#10. The tender breeze felt my loneliness. It brought me your fragrance.
Avijeet Das
#11. Just as a fever makes cold feel colder, love can make loneliness feel lonelier.
Andrea Cremer
#12. It is loneliness that makes the loudest noise. This is true of men as of dogs.
Eric Hoffer
#13. We long to connect, all of us. We long to be noticed, to be cared for, to matter. Generosity is the invisible salve on our wound of loneliness, one that benefits both sides, over and over again.
Seth Godin
#15. I shall lead you through the loneliness, the solitude you will not understand; but it is my shortcut to your soul.
Thomas Merton
#16. Happiness is always replacing by loneliness.even you do everything to be Happy but there are so many people around that some of them will cheer you and some of them makes you dawn.
O.v Grace
#17. Everyone desires relationships and community. Most people want to belong to a cohesive, like-minded group. It staves off loneliness. It promotes identity. These are natural and very human instincts.
Joshua Ferris
#18. Closer of lovely eyes to lovely dreams,
Lover of loneliness, and wandering,
Of upcast eye, and tender pondering!
Thee must I praise above all other glories
That smile us on to tell delightful stories.
John Keats
#19. The perfection of loneliness is you can do whatever you want by yourself.
M.F. Moonzajer
#20. The United States, with all her time zones and logos, was the home to so many lonely souls, but none at that particular moment felt such an extraordinary loneliness as Blue Gene Mapother, who felt like someone had just signed the divorce papers that would separate himself from himself.
Joey Goebel
#21. There are people who cannot risk loneliness with the experience. They always have to be in a flock and have human contact.
Marie-Louise Von Franz
#22. When traversing the vast sea of loneliness, Oneness is the only true safe harbor.
Gary Hopkins
#23. Feelings such as loneliness, longing or love are sometimes hard to put into words; maybe that's why we all love music, because it resonates with something we can't share.
Agnes Obel
#24. I felt alone, my loneliness suffocated me, and I craved to scream, shout and kill me while seeing all this. However, self-hatred also occupied me.
Shaikh Ashraf
#25. I'm quite all right. I'm not even scared. You see, I've learned from looking around, there is something worse than loneliness - and that's the fear of it." - Dorothy Parker
Nicole Archer
#26. Those who complete the course will do so only because they do not, as fatigue sets in, convince themselves that the road ahead is still too long, the inclines too steep, the loneliness impossible to bear and the prize itself of doubtful value.
Thabo Mbeki
#28. I tell you loneliness is the thing to master. Courage and fear, love, death are only parts of it and can easily be ruled afterwards. If I make myself master my own loneliness there will be peace or safety: and perhaps these are the same.
Martha Gellhorn
#29. Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
Maya Angelou
#30. Loneliness is not the enemy of your joy
as long as you know how you should always destroy
the pensive mood that remains with you like a friend
who never stands up for you when you're forced to bend
Munia Khan
#31. The dominant feeling of the battlefield is loneliness.
William Slim
#32. Confronted by too much emptiness, said Adam One, the brain invents. Loneliness creates company as thirst creates water. How many sailors have been wrecked in pursuit of islands that were merely a shimmering?
Margaret Atwood
#33. Sylvia's dark eyes widened. "You are more than you appear to be"
"Yes. I am a monster of Darkness, a beast," he agreed with her. Her lips tilted up.
"Can a beast weep in sorrow? Does darkness have the capacity to feel loneliness? I think not.
P.C. Cast
#34. Loneliness was the human condition, I had to get used to it.
Janet Fitch
#35. I'm learning to deal with my loneliness because then nobody can muck me around any more.
Amanda Eliasch
#36. Green makes me think of silence, or maybe it's loneliness. I get the feeling of a terribly distant star.
Kobo Abe
#37. It's a funny thing in my job: you remain perpetually lonely in a world where loneliness is the rarest commodity.
Brian W. Aldiss
#38. There is no such thing as loneliness. There is only the idea of loneliness.
M. Pierce
#39. [A cat] will make itself the companion of your hours of work, of loneliness, or of sadness.
Theophile Gautier
#40. The irony of loneliness is that everybody shares it from time to time.
Lil B
#41. This thing called universal gravitation
Is the power of loneliness pulling together.
Shuntaro Tanikawa
#42. But the battles against loneliness that I fought when I was 16 are very different from those I fought when I was 27, and those are very different from the ones I fight at 44.
Tom Hanks
#43. Loneliness is the universal problem of rich people.
Joan Collins
#45. Sorrow is not in death but in loneliness, and conflict comes when you seek consolation, forgetfullness, explanations, and illusions.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#46. Loneliness is not a feeling caused by the lack of people around - it is a feeling caused by the lack of one person.
Low Kay Hwa
#47. Was I happier there in my loneliness
Henri Cole
#52. Whenever I'm around people it causes me to feel nostalgic for the loneliness that drove me into their presence in the first place.
Dov Davidoff
#53. Humans were not meant for isolation. WE were not meant for loneliness.
S. Jae-Jones
#54. After all who doesn't wish to make a spectacle of their loneliness
Nicole Krauss
#55. Once in a while, people enter our lives and lessen the loneliness of being away from Home.
Yasmin Mogahed
#56. Loneliness is proof that your innate search for connection is intact.
Martha Beck
#57. In love, gallantry is necessary. Even when the first wild desire is gone, especially then, there is an inherent need for good manners and consideration, for the putting forth of effort. Two courteous and civilized human beings out of the loneliness of their souls owe that to each other.
Ilka Chase
#58. There were times when the light of the moon had gone out and she felt a great loneliness. It wasn't for herself. It was for what had happened to the grasses of their land, their waters, not just the massacre there, the slavery, but the killing of the ocean.
Linda Hogan
#59. I realize that I live on the bubble of insanity. I feel the weight of human suffering, loneliness and despair on me all the time. It's not getting easier; if anything, it's always right on the edge of my skin.
Erwin McManus
#60. If one's object is ascetic, it is far better to stay in London or Paris or New York; there is practically no extreme of heat or cold, physical risk, loneliness, hunger or thirst that cannot, with a little ingenuity, be conveniently achieved in the centres of civilization.
Evelyn Waugh
#61. It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.
Benjamin Britten
#62. I think the most common cause of insomnia is simple; its loneliness.
Heath Ledger
#63. and it is only in loneliness, as Goethe says, that your perceptions put forth their flowers.
E.F. Benson
#64. When I think about popular culture, I can't help but think that we're living in the age of loneliness. There's this illusion that we all have instant access to each other, but we actually have no real connection.
Madonna Ciccone
#65. I've had a lot of time to think and even though the silence is new, the loneliness isn't. How is it possible to have been surrounded by people and never feel complete?
Katie McGarry
#66. You don't have to think very hard to realize that our dread of both relationships and loneliness ... has to do with angst about death, the recognition that I'm going to die, and die very much alone, and the rest of the world is going to go merrily on without me.
David Foster Wallace
#67. The most important people in this man's life - the people who have mattered to him most - aren't my Mother or his wives or me or Anna or Allie. The people who matter most are the people in his head. That is loneliness.
Matthew Norman
#68. DeWitt: Loneliness leads to nothing good, only detachment. And sometimes the people who most need to reach out are the people least capable of it.
Jane Espenson
#69. She had always maintained a cynical facade, using it as a defence against embarrassment, fear, loneliness ... but at the moment she felt unusually vulnerable.
Lisa Kleypas
#70. 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
#71. I had become, with the approach of night, once more aware of loneliness and time - those two companions without whom no journey can yield us anything.
Lawrence Durrell
#72. I knew this feeling, the 2 a.m. loneliness that I'd practically invented.
Sarah Dessen
#73. The world is "sick" with loneliness in spite of multitudes of people living in it
Sunday Adelaja
#74. Fully revealed, the green eyes pierced her heart. In them, she sensed pain, loneliness and despair. Yet they weren't seeing her. Focused on the movement of the blade, the mesmerizing gaze seemed a world away. Stroke after stroke, the unmasked face appeared in the mirror.
Chris Lange
#76. Today's word was interminable, meaning never-ending. Like his loneliness. Like the love he felt for Kate. Like the awful hurt that wouldn't go away.
Margaret Brownley
#77. Does no one want to know the truth here, Mr. Archer? The real loneliness is living among all these kind of people who only ask one to pretend!
Edith Wharton
#78. It was not knowing that was the seed of madness, loneliness, suspicion, fear.
Dave Eggers
#79. Don't be afraid of loneliness, because everything is a door; even loneliness is a door, it opens to somewhere!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#80. Being human is the most terrible loneliness in the universe.
A.A. Attanasio
#81. I did not understand that I carried loneliness before me on a plate, and that music would be the light illuminating me from behind.
Rachel Hartman
#82. Loneliness is watching the only girl you've ever loved find happiness in the arms of another man.
Winter Renshaw
#83. It was a relationship born out of loneliness between two people who couldn't be more different. We took from each other what we needed. We left nothing behind for anyone else. He drank me dry. I ate him whole. We were dysfunctional. We were dangerous to each other.
A Meredith Walters
#84. These are some of the characteristics of the state of mind which the creation and appreciation of haiku demand: Selflessness, Loneliness, Grateful Acceptance, Wordlessness, Non-intellectuality, Contradictoriness, Humor, Freedom, Non-morality, Simplicity, Materiality, Love, and Courage.
R.H. Blyth
#85. The romantic artist, off alone in his storm-battered castle, fuming whole worlds from his brain, reflects his culture's most persistent myth, of God creating from a primal loneliness.
Garry Wills
#86. Books are my refuge. I can crawl into the space between the pages and curl my back to loneliness.
Anubhav Mishra
#87. She saw that he knew what loneliness was, that he understood why it might be raining inside a person even when the sun shone, that sadness needed no immediate cause.
Jan-Philipp Sendker
#88. Could my proud loneliness be merely an illusion?
Nicola Lecca
#89. It was a bizarre existence I led in my early twenties - that cliche of the comedian who goes out and entertains a roomful of people and then goes home to a lonely bedsit was unbelievably poignant for me because that was exactly what I was doing. I had periods of real loneliness.
Paul Merton
#90. It hit him that his own form of loneliness was a luxury, one as chosen and as paid for as three weeks in Kenya's velds or a cherry red Ferrari. Real loneliness wasn't something an assistant scoped out and got a good price on. Real loneliness was smothering and it stank of hopelessness.
Douglas Coupland
#91. The world itself, like the mask, began to seem difficult to believe in, and I was stricken with an unutterable sense of loneliness.
Kobo Abe
#92. Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.
Bertrand Russell
#93. See, the thing is, as a writer you are free. You are about the freest person that ever was. Your freedom is what you have bought with your solitude, your loneliness.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#94. Loneliness came over him, like an avalanche of snow. He was alone. Where he had always wanted to be. You can only trust yourself. There's a rat buried deep in everybody and they'll rat on you if they get pushed far enough.
William Lindsay Gresham
#95. From whence cometh the pounding of desire if not from the depths of loneliness?
Martin Cosgrove
#96. Nothing can penetrate the loneliness of the human heart except the highest intensity of the sort of love the religious teachers have preached.
Bertrand Russell
#97. Lonely? Yes. But a solemn, brooding, tragic loneliness that a man hates with a passion - and yet loves so much he craves for more.
George R R Martin
#98. The loneliness of the man is slowly being borne in upon me. There is not a man aboard but hates or fears him, nor is there a man whom he does not despise.
Jack London
#99. The loneliness of another can be shocking when it lays itself bare without warning.
Dennis Lehane
#100. Though we longed not to be lonely, we also feared the pain it would take us to be brought out of our lonely states. And after that fear, could we be guaranteed that we would never be returned to a state of loneliness again? We could not.
Edward Carey
