Loneliness Quotes for Reflection & Healing – Page 2 | GloryQuotes

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

One could not have isolated this retrovirus without knowledge of other retroviruses, that's obvious. But I believe we have answered the criteria of isolation.

Luc Montagnier

You're only lonely if you're not there for you.

Phil McGraw

When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

Hilaire Belloc

It is a very lonely life that a man leads, who becomes aware of truths before their times.

Thomas Reed

No one ever discovers the depths of his own loneliness.

Georges Bernanos

When I married Paul, we lived in St John's Wood in London. We had nice next-door neighbours, but you don't know anyone else. Everyone lives in isolation.

Linda McCartney

At times in my life, I have been utterly lonely. At other times, I've had disgusting infectious diseases. Try admitting these things in our culture.

Martha Beck

Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.

It is usually expensive and lonely to be principled.

Paul Theroux

Loneliness is about the scariest thing out there.

Joss Whedon

I've shut myself inside these walls, and I'm going to be a very lonely old lady if I'm not careful.

Danielle Steel

What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear.

Dag Hammarskjold

I cite these events because I think they underline two very disturbing phenomena - the loss of U.S. international credibility, the growing U.S. international isolation.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

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

Vicki Baum

Yet it is in this loneliness that the deepest activities begin. It is here that you discover act without motion, labor that is profound repose, vision in obscurity, and, beyond all desire, a fulfillment whose limits extend to infinity.

Thomas Merton

The surest cure for vanity is loneliness.

Tom Wolfe

Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It 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

The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Annie Dillard

What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.

Kurt Vonnegut

The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.

Lorraine Hansberry

Every crag and gnarled tree and lonely valley has its own strange and graceful legend attached to it.

Douglas Hyde

As has been pointed out with Libya, the debate over Libya, sometimes we allow diplomatic relations with imperfect regimes because progress can best be made through engagement instead of isolation.

Earl Blumenauer

For whoever is lonely there is a tavern.

Georg Trakl

Actually, my mother and Alfie came for three weeks' Christmas vacation and stayed for 21 years. I guess my mother never went back because she was lonely.

Frank McCourt

Loneliness is the ultimate poverty.

Abigail Van Buren

Isolation is a dream killer.

Barbara Sher

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

Amy Lowell

The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.

Tom Wolfe

Solitude vivifies; isolation kills.

Joseph Roux

There's no such thing as a crowded battlefield. Battlefields are lonely places.

Alfred M. Gray

I think people tend to see the bigger point, which is maybe not fitting in and feeling like you didn't have the childhood that you expected you would have, or that you felt lonely or struggled with drugs and alcohol or just that you were able to achieve your dreams.

Augusten Burroughs

In this cry of pain the inner consciousness of the people seems to lay itself bare for an instant, and to reveal the mood of beings who feel their isolation in the face of a universe that wars on them with winds and seas.

John Millington Synge

The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides.

Jules Verne

Out in the lonely woods the jasmine burns Its fragrant lamps, and turns Into a royal court with green festoons The banks of dark lagoons.

Henry Timrod

The lonely wanderer, who watches by the seashore the waves that roll between him and his home, talks of cruel facts, material barriers that, just because they are material, and not ideal, shall be the irresistible foes of his longing heart.

Josiah Royce

I think there is a difference between Slate and Salon. I think we both serve important functions on the Internet. As more and more Websites disappear, I'm thankful Slate is still around because it makes things less lonely.

David Talbot

When people are lonely they stoop to any companionship.

Lew Wallace

If you write fiction, you're by yourself. There are certain advantages to that in that you don't have to explain anything to anybody. But when you get in with others who share the loneliness of the whole enterprise, you're not lonely anymore.

Denis Johnson

Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets.

Paul Tournier

Teamwork is better than isolation, especially for a columnist.

Allan Sloan

Nothing makes us more vulnerable than loneliness, except greed.

Thomas Harris

Isolation is a self-defeating dream.

Carlos Salinas de Gortari

What is the opposite of two? A lonely me, a lonely you.

Richard Wilbur

People tell me there are a lot of guys like me, which doesn't explain why I'm lonely.

Mort Sahl

I've also seen that great men are often lonely. This is understandable, because they have built such high standards for themselves that they often feel alone. But that same loneliness is part of their ability to create.

Yousuf Karsh

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

Carson McCullers

I believe that you control your destiny, that you can be what you want to be. You can also stop and say, No, I won't do it, I won't behave his way anymore. I'm lonely and I need people around me, maybe I have to change my methods of behaving and then you do it.

Leo Buscaglia