Loneliness - Quotes

Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is richness of self. - May Sarton

Loneliness will sit over our roofs with brooding wings. - Bram Stoker

Lonely people, in talking to each other can make each other lonelier. - Lillian Hellman

Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets. - Paul Tournier

One trouble with most of us is that we don't use the resources within ourselves. We are all neglectful of powers that we share as our human birth-right, capacities for distraction from ourselves, for intelligent enjoyment, for receiving and giving. Through lack of mental and moral and spiritual exercises our souls shrink and shrivel and break out into maladies that almost inevitably include the feeling of misery and isolation usually described as loneliness. If we were properly related to ourselves and to the world and to the universe we should never lack for company and we should never be lonely. - John Daniel Barry

Physical distance between people has nothing to do with loneliness. It's psychic distance. - Robert M. Pirsig

The best part about being alone is that you really don’t have to answer to anybody. You do what you want. - Justin Timberlake

The loneliness you feel with another person, the wrong person, is the loneliest of all. - Deb Caletti

The main consequence of saying no to negative peer pressure is not just withstanding "the heat of the moment," as most adults think. Rather, it is coping with a sense of exclusion as others engage in the behavior and leave the adolescent increasingly alone. It is the loss of the shared experience. Further, the sense of exclusion remains whenever the group later recounts what happened. This feeling of loneliness then becomes pervasive but carries an easy solution – go along with the crowd. - Michael Riera

The most evident quality of human life is its loneliness. - Austin O’Malley

The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony. - Douglas Coupland

The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence. - Thomas Wolfe

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

We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and – in spite of True Romance magazines – we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way. - Hunter S. Thompson

We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we’re not alone. - Orson Welles

What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be. - Ellen Burstyn

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust? - George Eliot

What makes loneliness an anguish Iis not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear. - Dag Hammarskjold

When we truly realize that we are all alone is when we need others the most. - Ronald Anthony

When you’re surrounded by 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