Quotes on Being Lonely

Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.

Did he understand, as those interminable minutes ticked by, that being alone is not the same as being lonely? That being alone is a neutral state… something that exists only in the mind, not in the world, and, like a virus, is unable to survive without a willing host?

If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.

Loneliness is the first thing which God's eye named not good.

The more we care for the happiness of others, the greater is our own sense of well-being.

It was at that moment he realized that his spirit was truly human once more. For he no longer remembered how to be alone without being lonely.

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.

We are born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Everything in-between is a gift.

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.

There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.

Nobody ever lies about being lonely.

The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.

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

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.

Judging is a lonely job in which a man is, as near as may be, an island entire.

Being prime minister is a lonely job... you cannot lead from the crowd.

Reading - the best state yet to keep absolute loneliness at bay.

Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way.

We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.

Women would be better off when they no longer needed men more than they needed their own independent identities...How long a time it took me after my divorce to understand that being alone is not the same as being lonely.

In the past I have never thought about loneliness when working, and I don't think about it now. Yet there must be a reason for the fact that so many people talk about it.