Best Loneliness Quotes

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.

The individual has always to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe.

Hope rises and dreams flicker and die. Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday. Life is beautiful and living is pain.

You can have everything in the world and still be the loneliest man. And that is the most bitter type of loneliness, success has brought me world idolisation and millions of pounds. But it’s prevented me from having the one thing we all need: A loving, ongoing relationship.

When we cannot bear to be alone, it means we do not properly value the only companion we will have from birth to death-ourselves.

Human beings can withstand a week without water, two weeks without food, many years of homelessness, but not loneliness. It is the worst of all tortures, the worst of all sufferings.

Loneliness is a barrier that prevents one from uniting with the inner self.

Yes, you who must leave everything that you cannot control. It begins with your family, and soon it comes round to your soul. Well, I’ve been where you’re hanging, I think I can see how you’re pinned: When you’re not feeling holy your loneliness says that you’ve sinned.

Loneliness is only an opportunity to cut adrift and find yourself. In solitude you are least alone.

I better be honest about my feelings, even those involving loneliness, jealousy, and fear.

Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets.

Travel is in sad case. It is uncomfortable, it is expensive; it is a source of annoyance to our friends, and of loneliness to ourselves.

One may have a blazing hearth in one’s soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on their way.

Lonely people console themselves with self-absorption or curiosity.

We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.

Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.

If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside

They are sharing a drink called loneliness.

In human relations one should penetrate to the core of loneliness in each person and speak to that.

Your incredible brain can take you from rags to riches, from loneliness to popularity, and from depression to happiness and joy – if you use it properly.

While you are alone you are entirely your own master and if you have one companion you are but half your own, and the less so in proportion to the indiscretion of his behavior.

If you are alone you belong entirely to yourself. If you are accompanied by even one companion you belong only half to yourself or even less in proportion to the thoughtlessness of his conduct and if you have more than one companion you will fall more deeply into the same plight.

Shouldering your loneliness like a gun that you will not learn to aim, you stumble into this movie house then you climb, you climb into the frame.

I noticed that when I was on Prozac my relationship with the landscape improved. I actually stopped thinking about myself for a minute or two, because most of the thoughts one has about oneself are involved with desire or loneliness or isolation or strategies to overcome them.

Desire, loneliness, wind in the flowering almond— surely these are the great, the inexhaustible subjects to which my predecessors apprenticed themselves. I hear them echo in my own heart, disguised as convention.

I thought that it’s so sad there are people who live their entire lives lonely. They die and no one goes to their funeral. I thought about how sad that was and how so many people out there have that path. I know this sounds weird, but if I could go take their bones back to my house and appreciate them for what they are, it would be my way of taking that loneliness away.

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

The first cup caresses my dry lips and throat, The second shatters the walls of my loneliness, The third explores the dry rivulets of my soul Searching for legends of five thousand scrolls. With the fourth the pain of past injustice vanishes through my pores. The fifth purifies my flesh and bone. With the sixth I commune with the immortals. The seventh conveys such pleasure I am overcome. The fresh wind blows through my wings As I make my way to Penglai.

It seems to be that loneliness is a small price to pay for peace and quiet.

Science will never be able to reduce the value of a sunset to arithmetic. Nor can it reduce friendship to formula. Laughter and love, pain and loneliness, the challenge of beauty and truth: these will always surpass the scientific mastery of nature.

..he understood far more deeply than anyone else the loneliness that lurked beneath his jaunty mask.

Hollywood is loneliness beside the swimming pool.

The irony of loneliness is that everybody shares it from time to time.