Browsing Topic Best Loneliness Quotes

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

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

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

We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we’re not alone.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.

No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

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.

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

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

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.

Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.

There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.

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

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.

Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets.

Loneliness is the worst pain in this world. It constantly eats away the person’s heart, and can cause the person to hate, to feel enraged. It is like a wound of the heart; the type of wounds that cannot go away with a kiss or a hug. The only thing that can make this great pain go away is love and compassion, another human heart to pull them out of this hell.

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.

Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.

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

They are sharing a drink called loneliness.

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

I was a man who thrived on solitude; without it I was like another man without food or water. Each day without solitude weakened me. I took no pride in my solitude; but I was dependent on it. The darkness of the room was like sunlight to me.

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

Believe to the end, even if all men went astray and you were left the only one faithful; bring your offering even then and praise God in your loneliness.

Loneliness is one thing, solitude another.

Lonely people console themselves with self-absorption or curiosity.

Everyone says love hurts, but that is not true. Loneliness hurts. Rejection hurts. Losing someone hurts. Envy hurts. Everyone gets these things confused with love, but in reality love is the only thing in this world that covers up all pain and makes someone feel wonderful again. Love is the only thing in this world that does not hurt.