Quotes on Loneliness

We must become so alone, so utterly alone, that we withdraw into our innermost self. It is a way of bitter suffering. But then our solitude is overcome, we are no longer alone, for we find that our innermost self is the spirit, that it is God, the indivisible. And suddenly we find ourselves in the midst of the world, yet undisturbed by its multiplicity, for our innermost soul we know ourselves to be one with all being.

Without great solitude no serious work is possible.

I've never been lonely. I like myself. I'm the best form of entertainment I have. Let's drink more wine!

Night is beautiful when you are happy--comforting when you are in grief--terrible when you are lonely and unhappy.

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

Loneliness is like starvation: you don't realize how hungry you are until you begin to eat.

Even in this world where you’re getting everything you need and having this nice life, there’s still loneliness and longing and disconnection.

Nor law, nor duty bade me fight, Nor public men, nor cheering crowds, A lonely impulse of delight Drove to this tumult in the clouds.

People are longing to rediscover true community. We have had enough of loneliness, independence and competition.

To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Maybe love was superstition, a prayer we said to keep the truth of loneliness at bay. I tilted my head back. The stars looked like they were close together, when really they were millions of miles apart. In the end, maybe love just meant longing for something impossibly bright and forever out of reach.

Maybe true love isn't out there for me, but I can sublimate my loneliness with the notion that true love is out there for someone.

We're all lonely for something we don't know we're lonely for. How else to explain the curious feeling that goes around feeling like missing somebody we've never even met?

There are people who cannot risk loneliness with the experience. They always have to be in a flock and have human contact.

...loneliness is not a function of solitude.

Have you never been moved by poor men's fidelity, the image of you they form in their simple minds? Why should you always talk of their envy, without understanding that what they ask of you is not so much your worldly goods, as something very hard to define, which they themselves can put no name to; yet at times it consoles their loneliness; a dream of splendor, of magnificence, a tawdry dream, a poor man's dream -and yet God blesses it!

...real loneliness is having no one to miss. Think yourself lucky you've known something worth missing.

The loneliness you get by the sea is personal and alive. It doesn't subdue you and make you feel abject. It's stimulating loneliness.

An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.

Part of the reason people don't talk about their loneliness is that they feel they will be judged for it.

As prevalent as loneliness is, many people don't recognize that people that they know may very well be suffering from loneliness. It's important for many reasons, one of which is that it has a profound impact on health.