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Loneliness Quotes & Sayings

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Books make the best ersatz friendships. — Nenia Campbell

She needed intimacy and a sense of partaking in, not just observing, real life. — Eiji Yoshikawa

When we front a fiction, we are destined for loneliness. — Craig Groeschel

It kept the loneliness of crushlessness from being entirely crushing. — John Green

When you fill a void, isn't the void still there? — Marty Rubin

I realized that I knew less about loneliness than I had thought - and much less than I would know when he went away. — Octavia E. Butler

Jamie enjoyed solitude, but loneliness was a constant ache. — Sidney Sheldon

Most of my life I have needed more time to be on my own. — P.D. James

When traversing the vast sea of loneliness, Oneness is the only true safe harbor. — Gary Hopkins

I'm never going to be happy, but I could get close now, I think. I could be almost normal. I could have a friend. — Alyssa Brugman

Loneliness is such a sad affair. — Karen Carpenter

It's a treat, being a long-distance runner, out in the world by yourself . . . - Alan Sillitoe, The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner — John L. Parker Jr.

Possibly from the outside this looks determinedly individual. Nobody realises what a mess of loneliness and inadequacy I am inside. — Lindsay Anderson

I'm scared of losing this web we're in. This elusive, indefinable, opposite of loneliness. — Marina Keegan

No one has ever properly understood me, I have never fully understood anyone; and no one understands anyone else — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I know the dark delight of being strange, The penalty of difference in the crowd, The loneliness of wisdom among fools ... — Claude McKay

Like dry ground welcoming the rain, he let the solitude, silence, and loneliness soak in. — Haruki Murakami

Life, despite the accompanying loneliness that afflicts human without umbilical attachments, was to be cherished for the sheer joy of nature. — Aporva Kala

You can overcome sadness, loneliness, even terrible loss. But guilt goes with you the grave. — Jodee Blanco

Loneliness burns in towers of fire around us — Christopher Poindexter

I have been a stranger here in my own land: All my life — Sophocles

If from society we learn to live, solitude should teach us how to die. — Lord Byron

The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness. — Norman Cousins

Going from love to loneliness was worse than not knowing love at all. — Taryn Browning

One waits an entire lifetime for a soul mate to appear. And no, God is not the answer — Srividya Srinivasan

In the sinking sand,
where we've come to rest,
have I had a hand in your loneliness? — Joanna Newsom

With Christ as your Savior and constant Companion, you, although alone, need never be lonely. — Billy Graham

The loneliness of command had made Eisenhower emotionally self-sufficient. — Jean Edward Smith

Loneliness is a very special place, Silently silently you touch my face — Dennis Wilson

I am not without an object in life, but I feel lonely and deserted. — Johanna Van Gogh-Bonger

A wish for a future no longer tainted by the past. A future that held joy, not regret. A future that offered love instead of loneliness. — Irene Hannon

I learned the strange art of loneliness, the weathered yearning that swells and passes, and swells and passes, when you walk a trail alone. — Anna Carey

I'd do it all over again, knowing that you were going to be there at the end. I'd walk through the sadness and the loneliness all over again for you. — Kimberly Lauren

One of the greatest acts of service you can do is to find someone who is secretly lonely and be a friend to them, if only for a day. — Dan Pearce

Sometimes I get tired. Sometimes I get bored. And sometimes all I want, more than anything else in the world, is to go on a freaking date. — Kiersten White

Loneliness is dangerous ... because if aloneness does not lead to God, it leads to the devil. It leads to the self. — Joyce Carol Oates

This thing called universal gravitation
Is the power of loneliness pulling together. — Shuntaro Tanikawa

The more we wait, the more everything and everyone looks like a grain of sand escaping between our fingers before vanishing into the wind. — Fabio Moon

Even the loneliest and most solitary in the universe... the very cold space dust... will eventually come together to form a star. — G.C. Huxley

When everyone leaves you it's loneliness you feel, when you leave everyone else it's solitude. — Alfred Polgar

I had gotten so used to being alone, but never entirely used to it. Never used to it enough to stop wanting the alternative. — David Levithan

That and loneliness. — Dean Koontz

Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone. — Paul Tillich

E understood far more deeply than anyone else the loneliness that lurked beneath his jaunty mask. — Ryunosuke Akutagawa

Communion over loneliness. Death not an end, but a beginning. At home in the absolute - and absolutely unknown - future. — James Carroll

We don't have a word for the opposite of loneliness, but if we did, I could say that's what I want in life. — Marina Keegan

If loneliness is the disease, the story is the cure.
— Richard Ford

Hate engenders loneliness and despair — Jocelyn Murray

If one's different, one's bound to be lonely. — Aldous Huxley

An awareness had come over him that he wasn't going to die. Loneliness in itself could not destroy him. Neglect was insufficient. And so he slept. — Anne Rice

Would being completely alone in a universe bring a sensation of closing limitations or infinitely expanding horizons with associated loneliness? — Peter F. Hamilton

Cause sometimes what makes you two is shadow and you. — Jayson Lobo

He liked the loneliness of inner space, the sense of being forgotten by the world. — Richard Preston

I didn't have that kind of friendship, the forever kind of friendship that will last your whole life through, no matter what. — Jenny Han

Thirty
the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Loneliness is a poison, but aloneness is a catalyst. — Sam Killermann

Solitude is not measured by the miles of space that intervene between a man and his fellows. — Henry David Thoreau

If a man cannot understand the beauty of life, it is probably because life never understood the beauty in him. — Criss Jami

Loneliness is not a result of physical isolation; you're only lonely the day you realize that nobody shares your opinions. — Sabah Carrim

I am not meant to be alone and without you who understands. — Carson McCullers

On this road there are no godspoke men. They are gone and I am left and they have taken with them the world. — Cormac McCarthy

Walking alone is not difficult but when we have walked a mile worth a thousand years with someone then coming back alone is what is difficult. — Faraaz Kazi

The fallow soil of loneliness is fertile ground for self-deception. — Dean Koontz

We could build entire cities out of the stories of loneliness. — Hannah Brencher

Sorry for all the pain and loneliness and disappointment. But there is this, too. — Libba Bray

What a difference having a friend makes. — Richard Paul Evans

She stays in the same spot, anchored by the profound, desperate loneliness of a bad relationship. — David Levithan

For writing is a solitary occupation, and one of its hazards is loneliness. But an advantage of loneliness is privacy, autonomy, freedom. — Joyce Carol Oates

my heart, sometimes singing in the afternoon, the most haunting song of solitude — John J. Geddes

As lonesome as a kitten in a wash-house copper with the lid on. — Charles Dickens

A momentary gain in one's own sense of shared despair, shared nullity, shared rapture, shared loneliness, shared broken-hearted glee; — Michael Chabon

I think fear keeps people in mundane lives. Fear of freedom, fear of loneliness; it's a powerful opium. — John Harris

The whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be. — Bertrand Russell

Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone. — Charles Bukowski

It was not knowing that was the seed of madness, loneliness, suspicion, fear. — Dave Eggers

The sentiment of immediate loss in some sort decayed, while that of utter, irremediable loneliness grew on me with time. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

When people leave you, identify why they left and think about what is left — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

I did not love you out or boredom or loneliness or caprice. I loved you because the desire for you was stronger than any happiness. — Alessandro Baricco

Here we go mother on the shipless ocean.
Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go. — Anne Carson

Loneliness opens the door for wisdom and wisdom opens all the doors! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Aloneness exaggerates our emotions and sensitivity. — Beth Moore

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

My dear girl, is it that you are so lonely that you had to create this? — Mark Z. Danielewski

Her voice was like loneliness. It was regret. She sang about a past you couldn't get out of and didn't want. — Brenna Yovanoff

The central idea of the great part of the Old Testament may be called the idea of the loneliness of God. — G.K. Chesterton

I felt the kind of loneliness that can happen in a roomful of people when everyone but you seems to be in on the good time. — Lisa Kleypas

You know that saying about how you don't know what you have until it's gone? I already did know what I had, and now that she's gone, I know even more. — A.S. King

And he looked lonely enough that she said, 'If you like, you could be my friend'. — Sarah J. Maas

If you think love will drive you mad... then try loneliness. — Michael Xavier

Ursula craved solitude but she hated loneliness, a conundrum that she couldn't even begin to solve. — Kate Atkinson

There's a lot to be said for being alone. But you and I know, don't we, Flavia, that being alone and being lonely are not at all the same thing? — Alan Bradley

No one ever discovers the depths of his own loneliness. — Georges Bernanos

I think the most common cause of insomnia is simple; its loneliness. — Heath Ledger

We all need something to believe in. Without those beliefs we're just floating particles moving through the space time continuum. — Solange Nicole

Blessed with so many resources within myself the world was not necessary to me. I could do very well without it. — Jane Austen

Most of us do things for reasons that are more purely personal. For love, or for hate. — Cassandra Clare

When we truly realize that we are all alone is when we need others the most. — Ronald Anthony Cross

So it is that Lonely Places attract as many lonely people as they produce, and the loneliness we see in them is partly in ourselves. — Pico Iyer

Loneliness is the best way to realize that you are not alone.. — C. Massios

There is none more lonely than the man who loves only himself. — Abraham Ibn Ezra