Best Lonely Quotes

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.

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

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.

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.

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

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.

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

Give me a flagon of red wine, a book of verses, a loaf of bread, and a little idleness. If with such store I might sit by thy dear side in some lonely place, I should deem myself happier than a king in his kingdom.

Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets.

I like the idea of isolation, I like the idea of solitude. You can be connected and have a phone and still be lonely.

Lonely people console themselves with self-absorption or curiosity.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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!

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

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.

Honesty is such a lonely word. Everyone is so untrue.

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.

Maybe there’s a God above, As for me, all I’ve ever seemed to learn from love Is how to shoot at someone who outdrew you. Yeah but it’s not a complaint that you hear tonight, It’s not the laughter of someone who claims to have seen the light No it’s a cold and it’s a very lonely Hallelujah.

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.

Creativity is essentially a lonely art. An even lonelier struggle.

Writing on your own is, in a way, a very lonely profession. There’s no one there to help you.

Because I have known despair, I value hope. Because I have
tasted frustration, I value fulfillment. Because I have been lonely, I value love.

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

People don’t realize it, but no one lives that rock and roll life 24-7. They think it’s hundreds of bottles of champagne flowing and private jets and money. But there’s a lot of time when you’re traveling – time to think, time to be lonely. Sometimes it gets to you.

I pray that no missionary will ever be as lonely as I have been.