Loneliness Quotations

The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.

There is extraordinary similarities between the Midwest in America and Europe in that there is this sense of vast, open sky and loneliness and cold.

A blank wall of social and professional antagonism faces the woman physician that forms a situation of singular and painful loneliness, leaving her without support, respect or professional counsel.

Loneliness is my least favorite thing about life. The thing that I'm most worried about is just being alone without anybody to care for or someone who will care for me.

We live in a society bloated with data yet starved for wisdom. We're connected 24/7, yet anxiety, fear, depression and loneliness is at an all-time high. We must course-correct.

People talk about games and loneliness - it's a lonely activity. I didn't understand that. 'Gears of War' was the first multiplayer game for me that I enjoyed. But I wasn't sad. I liked being alone. I liked playing games by myself. I had lots of companionship at the house.

Yoga is a way to freedom. By its constant practice, we can free ourselves from fear, anguish and loneliness.

My inspiration are the woman, friendship, and loneliness.

What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be.

I had to learn compassion. Had to learn what it felt like to hate, and to forgive and to love and be loved. And to lose people close to me. Had to feel deep loneliness and sorrow. And then I could write.

Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness.

Some days, 24 hours is too much to stay put in, so I take the day hour by hour, moment by moment. I break the task, the challenge, the fear into small, bite-size pieces. I can handle a piece of fear, depression, anger, pain, sadness, loneliness, illness. I actually put my hands up to my face, one next to each eye, like blinders on a horse.

Everything we do is for the purpose of altering consciousness. We form friendships so that we can feel certain emotions, like love, and avoid others, like loneliness. We eat specific foods to enjoy their fleeting presence on our tongues. We read for the pleasure of thinking another person's thoughts.

To be poor does not mean you lack the means to extend charity to another. You may lack money or food, but you have the gift of friendship to overwhelm the loneliness that grips the lives of so many.

But the West of the old times, with its strong characters, its stern battles and its tremendous stretches of loneliness, can never be blotted from my mind.

Suffering, failure, loneliness, sorrow, discouragement, and death will be part of your journey, but the Kingdom of God will conquer all these horrors. No evil can resist grace forever.

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.

I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.

If you write fiction, you're by yourself. There are certain advantages to that in that you don't have to explain anything to anybody. But when you get in with others who share the loneliness of the whole enterprise, you're not lonely anymore.

Separate we come, and separate we go, And this be it known, is all that we know.

I realize that I live on the bubble of insanity. I feel the weight of human suffering, loneliness and despair on me all the time. It's not getting easier; if anything, it's always right on the edge of my skin.

In cities no one is quiet but many are lonely; in the country, people are quiet but few are lonely.

No one ever discovers the depths of his own loneliness.

It's a terrible thing to be alone - yes it is - it is - but don't lower your mask until you have another mask prepared beneath - as terrible as you like - but a mask.

In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.

Why do I write? It's not that I want people to think I am smart, or even that I am a good writer. I write because I want to end my loneliness.

Nothing makes us more vulnerable than loneliness except greed.

Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

I believe that dialogue is the key to breaking through our tendency to separate and isolate. Dialogue changes isolation and loneliness into connection and interdependence. This, I believe, is the essence of Buddhism.

Reading - the best state yet to keep absolute loneliness at bay.

Gatherings and, simultaneously, loneliness are the conditions of a writer's life.

Every time I look at you I get a fierce desire to be lonesome.

I dont fear death so much as I fear its prologues: loneliness, decrepitude, pain, debilitation, depression, senility. After a few years of those, I imagine death presents like a holiday at the beach.

The sky is one whole, the water another; and between those two infinities the soul of man is in loneliness.

When people are lonely they stoop to any companionship.

But I also think all of the great stories in literature deal with loneliness. Sometimes it's by way of heartbreak, sometimes it's by way of injustice, sometimes it's by way of fate. There's an infinite number of ways to examine it.

It is a very lonely life that a man leads, who becomes aware of truths before their times.

I've also seen that great men are often lonely. This is understandable, because they have built such high standards for themselves that they often feel alone. But that same loneliness is part of their ability to create.

The loneliness is when you pick up and move, even if you are not originally from that place, and you have some memories that you want to embrace. Having a life in transit, I feel like you are always looking out the back window.

There is no loneliness like that of a failed marriage.

In the past I have never thought about loneliness when working, and I don't think about it now. Yet there must be a reason for the fact that so many people talk about it.

It was a bizarre existence I led in my early twenties - that cliche of the comedian who goes out and entertains a roomful of people and then goes home to a lonely bedsit was unbelievably poignant for me because that was exactly what I was doing. I had periods of real loneliness.

Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.

I think one of the most poignant things is unrequited love and loneliness.

I sought my father in the world of the black musician, because it contained wisdom, experience, sadness and loneliness. I was not ever interested in the music of boys. From my youngest years, I was interested in the music of men.

Because of my childhood where I was constantly by myself, I always feel lonely. I have a lot of people that I absolutely love and I know love me but I can't get rid of that feeling of loneliness no matter who I'm with - even with my children.

The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.

Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.

Acting is the greatest answer to my loneliness that I have found.

Man's loneliness is but his fear of life.

Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination, and that's all you have.

All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.

A woman who is willing to be herself and pursue her own potential runs not so much the risk of loneliness, as the challenge of exposure to more interesting men - and people in general.

I believe a lot of disease comes from anxiety, loneliness.

You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even going and coming.

When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

While the resurrection promises us a new and perfect life in the future, God loves us too much to leave us alone to contend with the pain, guilt and loneliness of our present life.

The older generation had greater respect for land than science. But we live in an age when science, more than soil, has become the provider of growth and abundance. Living just on the land creates loneliness in an age of globality.

Even in the presence of others he was completely alone.

Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.

Loneliness is, I think, people's biggest fear, whether they are conscious of it or not.

Easter tells us of something children can't understand, because it addresses things they don't yet have to know: the weariness of life, the pain, the profound loneliness and hovering fear of meaninglessness.

Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.

Negative emotions like loneliness, envy, and guilt have an important role to play in a happy life; they're big, flashing signs that something needs to change.

If I'm such a legend, then why am I so lonely? Let me tell you, legends are all very well if you've got somebody around who loves you.

Yet it is in this loneliness that the deepest activities begin. It is here that you discover act without motion, labor that is profound repose, vision in obscurity, and, beyond all desire, a fulfillment whose limits extend to infinity.

Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

We enter the world alone, we leave the world alone.

I also wanted to express the strength of cinema to hide reality, while being entertaining. Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness.

But the battles against loneliness that I fought when I was 16 are very different from those I fought when I was 27, and those are very different from the ones I fight at 44.

On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.

We are never the same with others as when we are alone. We are different, even when we are in the dark with them.

We have all known the long loneliness, and we have found that the answer is community.

People drain me, even the closest of friends, and I find loneliness to be the best state in the union to live in.

You write a story about loneliness, and you grab them all because everybody's an expert on that one.

We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.

Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man.

My music is very personal. I've created it in solitude. I face a white wall and beller. I like that sound - the expression of loneliness. That's what it's all about.

Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate.

Anger is a manifestation of a deeper issue... and that, for me, is based on insecurity, self-esteem and loneliness.

The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness. The remarkable thing is that the cessation of the inner dialogue marks also the end of our concern with the world around us. It is as if we noted the world and think about it only when we have to report it to ourselves.

The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.

When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.

A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man - the one he used to be.

I have a lot of friends, but my biggest fear is loneliness. I miss my family in Mumbai, and my biggest nightmare every day is to go back home alone.

The interesting thing is why we're so desperate for this anesthetic against loneliness.

The principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television. What happens is that the family 'gets together' alone.

Where the despair of loneliness and poverty haunts every hour, the optimism to embark on new projects cannot find a place to alight on the brains cortex. Poverty itself is an enormous obstacle to an enlightened and enlightening - not to say healthy - old age.

It would be really wonderful if people connected to the loneliness of what it means to be a human being in the world today.

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.

I would have to say loneliness is next to uncleanliness.

How we need another soul to cling to.

I had become, with the approach of night, once more aware of loneliness and time - those two companions without whom no journey can yield us anything.

Everybody has something that chews them up and, for me, that thing was always loneliness. The cinema has the power to make you not feel lonely, even when you are.

I don't want to be alone, I want to be left alone.

To live alone is the fate of all great souls.

Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.

Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.