Browsing Topic Best Lonely Quotes

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

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

We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and — in spite of True Romance magazines — we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way. I do not say lonely — at least, not all the time — but essentially, and finally, alone. This is what makes your self-respect so important, and I don’t see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.

Fall in love when you’re ready, not when you’re lonely.

Compassion asks us to go where it hurts, to enter into the places of pain, to share in brokenness, fear, confusion, and anguish. Compassion challenges us to cry out with those in misery, to mourn with those who are lonely, to weep with those in tears. Compassion requires us to be weak with the weak, vulnerable with the vulnerable, and powerless with the powerless. Compassion means full immersion in the condition of being human.

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

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

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists.. it is real.. it is possible.. it’s yours.

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

When you least feel like it, do something for someone else. You forget about your own situation. It gives you a purpose, as opposed being sorrowful and lonely.

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 you really want to be lonely, get married.

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances.

What a luxury a cat is, the moments of shocking and startling pleasure in a day, the feel of the beast, the soft sleekness under your palm, the warmth when you wake on a cold night, the grace and charm even in a quite ordinary workaday puss. Cat walks across your room, and in that lonely stalk you see leopard or even panther, or it turns its head to acknowledge you and the yellow blaze of those eyes tells you what an exotic visitor you have here, in this household friend, the cat who purrs as you stroke, or rub his chin, or scratch his head.

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

Being alone does not mean you are lonely, and being lonely does not mean you are alone.

Its beautiful to be alone. To be alone does not mean to be lonely. it means the mind is not influenced and contaminated by society.

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

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

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.

Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way.

One must flee those places where life throbs and seek out lonely spots untouched by human hand in order to lift the magic veil of nature

No amount of rationalisation, reform, or Freudian analysis can quite annul the thrill of the chimney-corner whisper or the lonely wood.

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

I feel the madness creeping slowly. Loved by many, I’m still lonely.

Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets.

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

if you want to be a little bit solitary and work very hard, you can do it more easily in New York than in a town like Paris or London. Because you depend so much for human relationships here on the phone. If you don’t answer your phone, you are quite a lonely couple.

All I ever wanted since I arrived here on earth are the same things I needed as a baby, to go from cold to warm, lonely to held, the vessel to the giver, empty to full.

I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.

Warmth, kindness, and friendship are the most yearned for commodities in the world. The person who can provide them will never be lonely.

What a deep faith in the rationality of the structure of the world and what a longing to understand even a small glimpse of the reason revealed in the world there must have been in Kepler and Newton to enable them to unravel the mechanism of the heavens in long years of lonely work!

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.

The writer labors in isolation, yet all that intensive, lonely work is in the service of communicating, is an attempt to reach another person.