Explore Quotes on Loneliness

I am a lover without a lover. I am lovely and lonely and I belong deeply to myself.

When everyone leaves you it's loneliness you feel, when you leave everyone else it's solitude.

If love is universal, no one can be left out.

My alone feels so good, I'll only have you if you're sweeter than my solitude.

There's nothing terribly wrong with feeling lost, so long as that feeling precedes some plan on your part to actually do something about it. Too often a person grows complacent with their disillusionment, perpetually wearing their "discomfort" like a favorite shirt.

Solitude is a condition of peace that stands in direct opposition to loneliness. Loneliness is like sitting in an empty room and being aware of the space around you. It is a condition of separateness. Solitude is becoming one with the space around you. It is a condition of union. loneliness is small, solitude is large. loneliness closes in around you; solitude expands toward the infinite. loneliness has its roots in words, in an internal conversation that nodbody answers; solitude has it's roots in the great silence of eternity.

Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not. Time takes it all, time bears it away, and in the end there is only darkness. Sometimes we find others in that darkness, and sometimes we lose them there again.

There is absolutely no point in sitting around and feeling sorry for yourself. The great power you have is to let go ... focus on what you have, no that which has been mean or unkindly removed.

I was never less alone than when by myself.

Feeling lonely and ignoble indicates that you haven't been patient.

One can endure sorrow alone, but it takes two to be glad.

We have all known the long loneliness, and we have found that the answer is community.

Be good and you will be lonely.

There is none more lonely than the man who loves only himself.

Writing is an antidote for loneliness.

I believe a lot of disease comes from anxiety, loneliness.

Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

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

Hollywood is loneliness beside the swimming pool.

No matter how lonely you get or how many birth announcements you receive, the trick is not to get frightened. There's nothing wrong with being alone.

Loneliness is the ultimate poverty.