Loneliness Quotes

The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.

Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets.

People who lead a lonely existence always have something on their minds that they are eager to talk about.

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.

The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

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

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

The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.

The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.

Language... 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.

It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone.

No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.

Gatherings and, simultaneously, loneliness are the conditions of a writer's life.

There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.

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.

To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.

Skillful listening is the best remedy for loneliness, loquaciousness, and laryngitis.

What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.

All alone!
Whether you like it or not,
alone is something you'll
be quite a lot

With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only a reflection of themselves.