Browsing Topic 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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

It then becomes necessary to stop short and make a choice: Either/Or. Either one drifts with their absurd system of ideas, believing that this is the human community. Or one dissents totally from their system of ideas and stands as a lonely human being. (But luckily one notices that the others are in the same crisis and making the same choices.)

Lonely people console themselves with self-absorption or curiosity.

If I am a legend, then why am I so lonely?

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?

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.