Loneliness Quotes

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The eternal quest of the individual human being is
to shatter his loneliness.
- Norman Cousins

Loneliness is not what it seems.
One does not feel lonely because one is alone,
but because of a feeling of lack -
a feeling that something is missing.
Loneliness is essentially independent
of how many other humans are around.
It has much more to do with one's self-esteem -
one's sense of inherent worth.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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.
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

There's a difference between solitude and loneliness.
I can understand the concept of being a monk for a while.
- Tom Hanks

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

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

Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered
from the anguish of loneliness.
- Dag Hammarskjold

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things;
knows not the livid loneliness of fear.
- Amelia Earhart

When you are alone you are not alone,
you are simply lonely -
and there is a tremendous difference
between loneliness and aloneness.
When you are lonely you are thinking of the other,
you are missing the other.
Loneliness is a negative state.
You are feeling that it would have been
better if the other were there -
your friend, your wife, your mother,
your beloved, your husband.
It would have been good if the other
were there, but the other is not.
Loneliness is absence of the other.
Aloneness is the presence of oneself.
Aloneness is very positive.
It is a presence, overflowing presence.
You are so full of presence
that you can fill the whole universe
with your presence and there is no need for anybody.
- Osho

In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.
- John Steinbeck

The interesting thing is why we're so desperate for
this anesthetic against loneliness.
- David Foster Wallace

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

Being a good host offsets the deprivation and loneliness of my youth.
- Alan Ladd

When I decided to be a singer, my mother warned me I'd be alone a lot.
Basically we all are.
Loneliness comes with life.
- Whitney Houston

Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness,
and he who is a leader must always act alone.
And acting alone, accept everything alone.
- Ferdinand Marcos

At the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep and
powerful yearning for union with one's lost self.
- Brendan Francis

I also wanted to express the strength of cinema to hide reality,
while being entertaining.
Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness.
- Pedro Almodovar

It would do the world good if every man would compel
himself occasionally to be absolutely alone.
Most of the world s progress has come out of such loneliness.
- Bruce Barton

I like being alone and I think this movie,
as much as it is an investigation of connection and people bonding,
I also think it's just as much about loneliness.
- Jason Schwartzman

Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude
expresses the glory of being alone.
- Paul Tillich

The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision
of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account.
- Alice Walker

Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man.
- Thomas Wolfe

If there is a look of human eyes that tells of perpetual loneliness,
so there is also the familiar look that is the sign of perpetual crowds.
- Alice Meynell

Music was my refuge.
I could crawl into the space between the notes and
curl my back to loneliness.
- Maya Angelou

Anger is a manifestation of a deeper issue...
and that, for me, is based on insecurity,
self-esteem and loneliness.
- Naomi Campbell

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

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.
- Alberto Giacometti

There is extraordinary similarities between the Midwest
in America and Europe in that there is this sense of vast,
open sky and loneliness and cold.
- Ajay Naidu

Yoga is a way to freedom.
By its constant practice, we can free ourselves from fear,
anguish and loneliness.
- Indra Devi

A man in a bookstore buys a book on loneliness and
every woman in the store hits on him.
A woman buys a book on loneliness and the store clears out.
- Doug Coupland

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering -
and it's all over much too soon.
- Woody Allen

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

Loneliness is proof that your innate search for connection is intact.
- Martha Beck

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

There were times when I had great times with my brothers,
pillow fights and things, but I was,
used to always cry from loneliness.
- Michael Jackson

I had become, with the approach of night,
once more aware of loneliness and time -
those two companions without whom no journey can yield us anything.
- Lawrence Durrell

I live with the people I create and it has always made
my essential loneliness less keen.
- Carson McCullers

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

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

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

Moon!
Moon!
I am prone before you.
Pity me, and drench me in loneliness.
- Amy Lowell

Acting is the greatest answer to my loneliness that I have found.
- Claire Danes

There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure.
The failure is a stranger in his own house.
- Eric Hoffer

I think I'd like to be able to heal people's pain,
whether it is hunger, loneliness or whatever.
- Brandi Chastain

Forget sex or politics or religion, loneliness is the
subject that clears out a room.
- Doug Coupland

It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful.
It has the beauty of loneliness of pain:
of strength and freedom.
The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love.
The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.
- Benjamin Britten

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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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