Browsing Topic Best Lonely Quotes

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

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.

If you really want to be lonely, get married.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets.

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.

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!

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

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

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

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.

Seldom can the heart be lonely,If it seek a lonelier still;Self-forgetting, seeking onlyEmptier cups of love to fill.

Shall Earth no more inspire thee, Thou lonely dreamer now?

My friends, ask gladness from God. Be glad as children, as birds in the sky. And let man’s sin not disturb you in your efforts, do not feat that it will dampen your endeavor and keep it from being fulfilled, do not say, Sin is strong, impiety is strong, the bad environment is strong, and we are lonely and powerless, the bad environment will dampen us and keep our good endeavor from being fulfilled. Flee from such despondency, my children! There is only one salvation for you: take yourself up, and make yourself responsible for the sins of men.

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

May you be for ever blessed for that moment of bliss and happiness which you gave to another lonely and grateful heart. Isn’t such a moment sufficient for the whole of one’s life?

He looked so lost, so soulful, so lonely. I wanted him to kiss me now. I wanted to let him know I was his for all eternity.