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Short Loneliness Quotes

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

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

Dag Hammarskjold

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

The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself.

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

Jerzy Kosinski

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.

It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.

Albert Einstein

Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man.

Deep Loneliness Quotes

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

If you want to end your isolation, you must be honest about what you want at a core level and decide to go after it.

Martha Beck

The home stands in contrast to all other capitalist institutions as the last stronghold of pre-capitalist isolation.

C. L. R. James

I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens in a hostile world.

Russell Baker

There is no such thing as a good or bad ad in isolation. What is good at one moment is bad at another. Research can trap you into the past.

William Bernbach

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

Germaine Greer

The principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television. What happens is that the family 'gets together' alone.

Ashley Montagu

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

Healing Loneliness Quotes

Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.

Too much of what is called "education" is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.

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

The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all.

To the solemn graves, near a lonely cemetery, my heart like a muffled drum is beating funeral marches.

Charles Baudelaire

True artists are prophets. I don't want to be that prophetic in that sense because it's so lonely.

Yoko Ono

The geographical isolation and lack of television made world happenings and problems seem remote.

Paul D. Boyer

You write a story about loneliness, and you grab them all because everybody's an expert on that one.

Theodore Sturgeon

More Loneliness Quotes

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

Anton Chekhov

When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.

Tennessee Williams

Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely.

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

Dag Hammarskjold

There's something to be said in favor of working in isolation in the real world.

A. R. Ammons

It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Thomas Wolfe

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

Dorothy Day

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

Jean-Paul Sartre

The lonely become either thoughtful or empty.

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.

Mother Teresa

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

Mother Teresa

If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.

I think isolation is one of the greatest problems, an ever-growing obstacle to political solidarity.

Elfriede Jelinek

Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone.

Paul Tillich

No man is lonely eating spaghetti; it requires so much attention.

Christopher Morley

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

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

David Foster Wallace

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

Albert Schweitzer

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

Norman Cousins

My major regret in life is that my childhood was unnecessarily lonely.

Truman Capote

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

Brendan Francis

Lonely people, in talking to each other, can make each other lonelier.

Lillian Hellman

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

I had never felt so lonely and so sad in my entire life.

Susan Smith

You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.

I have tried to talk about the issues in this campaign... and this has sometimes been a lonely road, because I never meet anybody coming the other way.

Adlai E. Stevenson

Loneliness is proof that your innate search for connection is intact.

Martha Beck

Absolutely lonely people have few personal interactions of any kind.

Martha Beck

If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right.

Jules Renard

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

Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.

May Sarton

If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.

Anton Chekhov

In cities no one is quiet but many are lonely; in the country, people are quiet but few are lonely.

Geoffrey Fisher

I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

Henry David Thoreau

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Loneliness is the most terrible poverty.

Mother Teresa

The snow itself is lonely or, if you prefer, self-sufficient. There is no other time when the whole world seems composed of one thing and one thing only.

Joseph Wood Krutch

I must go down to the sea again, to the lonely sea and the sky; and all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by.

John Masefield

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

The essence of Richard Nixon is loneliness.

Henry A. Kissinger

Even cats grow lonely and anxious.

National isolation breeds national neurosis.

Hubert H. Humphrey

So if North Korea continues present isolation, then with such economic difficulties the North Korean government must meet a very serious situation in the future.

Kim Dae Jung

Pioneers may be picturesque figures, but they are often rather lonely ones.

Nancy Astor

The sky is one whole, the water another; and between those two infinities the soul of man is in loneliness.

Henryk Sienkiewicz

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.

Paul Tillich

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