Loneliness Quotes

What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear.

Dag Hammarskjold

I felt very lonely when they were all there.

Ernest Hemingway

The human animal cannot be trusted for anything good except en masse. The combined thought and action of the whole people of any race, creed or nationality, will always point in the right direction.

Harry S Truman

The human animal cannot be trusted for anything good except en masse. The combined thought and action of the whole people of any race, creed or nationality, will always point in the right direction.

Harry S Truman

What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.

Kurt Vonnegut

I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano!

William Shakespeare

Lying in the bed that had once held two, Lisey thought alone never felt more lonely than when you woke up and discovered you still had the house to yourself. That you and the mice in the walls were the only ones still breathing.

Stephen King

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

Maurice Maeterlinck

I've noticed that loneliness gets stronger when we try to face it down, but gets weaker when we simply ignore it.

Paulo Coelho

Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.

Jodi Picoult

Be good and you will be lonesome.

Mark Twain

There is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a dream, a grotesque and foolish dream. Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought --a vagrant thought, a useless thought, a homeless thought, wandering forlorn among the empty eternities!

Mark Twain

At the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep and powerful yearning for union with one's lost self.

Brendan Francis

She had known happiness, exquisite happiness, intense happiness, and it silvered the rough waves a little more brightly, as daylight faded, and the blue went out of the sea and it rolled in waves of pure lemon which curved and swelled and broke upon the beach and the ecstasy burst in her eyes and waves of pure delight raced over the floor of her mind and she felt, It is enough! It is enough!

Virginia Woolf

Columbus discovered no isle or key so lonely as himself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.

Carl Gustav Jung

Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it. The way it tunnels into you allows your soul room to grow.

Janet Fitch

The essence of this man Richard M. Nixon is loneliness.

Henry Kissinger

Loneliness breaks the spirit.

Yiddish Proverb

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

Tennessee (Thomas Lanier) Willia