Loneliness Quotations | Page 3

I'm one of the millions of immigrant children, children of loneliness, wandering between worlds that are at once too old and too new to live in.

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.

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.

The whole problem of life, then, is this: how to break out of one's own loneliness, how to communicate with others.

To the people that claim to hate Love: Remember that the thing that hurt you was a person, not love. If it had been love, they would not have hurt you. Beware that many things masquerade as love: obsession, jealousy, control, and loneliness are just a few. Love is the greatest thing on Earth, along with her sister, Hope.

I could tell you it's the heart, but what is really killing him is loneliness. Memories are worse than bullets.

Over time, loneliness gets inside you and doesn't go away.

Here in a little lonely room I am master of earth and sea, And the planets come to me.

There is in the world only the choice between loneliness and vulgarity. All young people should be taught now to put up with loneliness ... because the less man is compelled to come into contact with others, the better off he is.

Loneliness comes in two basic varieties. When it results from a desire for solitude, loneliness is a door we close against the world. When the world instead rejects us, loneliness is an open door, unused.