Best Loneliness Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“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.”

People Feels Writing Hate Felt Loses Compassion Loneliness Sorrow Forgiving

Author:Louise Penny

“I'm just a believer in keeping all of the creative brain cells moving and working even when you're not working because the inevitable loneliness and boring drought in the actor's world, it can eat you alive.”

World Moving Actors Brain Creative Alive Loneliness Boring Believer Cells Inevitable Drought Brain Cells

Author:Nikki Reed

“Loneliness is a feeling that is created by our ego. The ego feels separate from the rest of creation. The answer to overcoming those feelings is ecstasy.”

Feels Feelings Happiness Answers Loneliness Creation Buddhism Ego Overcoming Ecstasy

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.”

Source: The Diary of Anne Frank

“Loneliness and hunger were my fortunes of creation.”

Loneliness Creation Fortune Hunger

Author:Mo Yan

“Even the rich aren't often happy. Their wealth is at best only a temporary distraction. It doesn't make them immune to emotional and mental suffering, or to disease and death. They too must deal with loneliness, the deaths of loved ones and the frustrations and boredom of old age.”

Source: Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

“There is no loneliness when you meditate, you feel eternity. How could you ever be lonely? You just feel God's love for you and that sustains you. It's totally clear; it's part of every aspect of your being.”

Feels Clear Meditation Loneliness Buddhism Aspect Lonely Eternity God's Love Being Me

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Writing is a solitary occupation, and one of its hazards is loneliness. But an advantage of loneliness is privacy, autonomy and freedom.”

Writing Loneliness Advantage Privacy Occupation Solitary Autonomy Hazards

Author:Joyce Carol Oates

“Companionship is a foreign concept to some people. They fear it as much as the majority of people fear loneliness.”

People Fear Loneliness Concepts Majority Introvert Companionship Introversion

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“To be a lighthouse, you must be strong enough to resist every kind of storm, to every kind of loneliness and you must have a powerful light inside you!”

Kind Enough Light Strong Powerful Loneliness Storm Strong Enough Lighthouse

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“It is said that life is too short, and that’s quite true, unless you are lonely. Loneliness can bring time to its knees; an absolute and utter standstill.”

Said Life Is Loneliness Lonely Absolutes Knees Too Short Life Is Too Short Standstill

Book:Losing Julia

Source: Losing Julia

“Birth is the start of loneliness and loneliness the start of poetry.”

Loneliness Birth

Author:Erica Jong

“Mandarin ducks mate for life and will die of loneliness if separated from their chosen mate.”

Ifs Dies Loneliness Chosen Mates Ducks

Author:Katherine Paterson

“I write because I want to end my loneliness. Books make people less alone. That, before and after everything else, is what books do. They show us that conversations are possible across distances.”

People Want Writing Book Ends Shows Loneliness Conversation Distance Before And After

Author:Jonathan Safran Foer

“Even the wisest of mankind cannot live by reason alone; pure arrogant reason, denying the claims of prejudice (which commonly are also the claims of conscience), leads to a wasteland of withered hopes and crying loneliness, empty of God and man: the wilderness in which Satan tempted Christ was not more dreadful than the arid expanse of intellectual vanity deprived of tradition and intuition, where modern man is tempted by his own pride.”

Source: The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot

“Privacy and loneliness were the traditional luxuries accorded to a skipper.”

Loneliness Traditional Luxury Privacy Skipper

Book:Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan

Source: Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan

“Loneliness is necessary for pure poetry.”

Loneliness Pure

Book:The Collected Books of Jack Spicer

Source: The Collected Books of Jack Spicer

“I barely noticed loneliness anymore; it was my normal condition, by necessity if not by nature.”

Ifs Conditions Loneliness Normal

Author:Rachel Hartman

“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.”

People Knows Feels Children I Can Matter Feelings Childhood Loneliness Lonely My Children Feeling Lonely

Author:Natalia Vodianova

“Loneliness is a hell of a drug.”

Hell Loneliness Drug

Author:Jeremy Robert Johnson

“Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.”

Loneliness Solitude Beast Introvert Being Alone Delighted Loner Hermits Greek Philosopher Loneliness And Solitude Wild Beasts

Author:Aristotle

“Though we are all human beings, we have built walls between ourselves and our neighbors through nationalism, through race, caste, and class - which again breeds isolation, loneliness.”

Humans Humanity Human Beings Race Class Loneliness Wall Built Neighbor Isolation Nationalism Castes

Book:The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti, (1963-1964): The New Mind

Source: The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti, (1963-1964): The New Mind

“Hope rises and dreams flicker and die. Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday. Life is beautiful and living is pain.”

“Alone, alone, about the dreadful wood / Of conscious evil runs a lost mankind, / Dreading to find its Father.”

Running Evil Father Lost Mankind Loneliness Conscious Woods

Book:For the Time Being: A Christmas Oratorio

Source: For the Time Being: A Christmas Oratorio

“You've been so long in the rain, you feel like a dirty dish rag. But despite the misery of your water soaked body, you look around to see verdant leaves dripping with water. The air entering your lungs smells vibrantly clean. To experience adventure, you must be willing to be uncomfortable at times and enjoy the loneliness by being happy with your own singing. A song pops out of your mouth... "It rained all night the day I left, the weather it was fine..."”

“And yet, these insights of connectedness and oneness, which make us feel so at home in the world, are so difficult to hold onto. And so, inevitably, we wind up living lives of isolation and loneliness.”

World Feels Home Difficult Loneliness Wind Insight Oneness Live Life Grieving Isolation Connectedness Isolation And Loneliness

Author:Irwin Kula

“No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.”

World Existence Conditions Loneliness Lonely Philosophical Being Alone Friendless

Book:Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics

Source: Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics

“Our present stress on growth and productivity is, I believe, intimately related to the decline in rootedness. Faced with loneliness and vulnerability that come with deprivation of a securely encompassing community, we have sought to quell the vulnerability through our possessions.”

Believe I Believe Growth Community Simple Loneliness Stress Possession Productivity Vulnerability Related Decline Simple Living Deprivation Rootedness

Author:Paul L Wachtel

“One aged man - one man - can't fill a house.”

Men House Loneliness Lonely One Man

Book:Selected Early Poems of Robert Frost

Source: Selected Early Poems of Robert Frost

“Become aware of your aloneness - which is a reality. And it is so beautiful to experience it, to feel it, because it is your freedom from the crowd, from the other. It is your freedom from the fear of being lonely.”

Feels Reality Beautiful Loneliness Lonely Crowds Being Lonely Your Freedom

Author:Rajneesh

“I seem forsaken and alone, / I hear the lion roar; / And every door is shut but one, / And that is Mercy's door.”

Seems Doors Loneliness Mercy Lions Forsaken

Book:The poetical works of William Cowper, ed: with notes and biographical introd. by William Benham

Source: The poetical works of William Cowper, ed: with notes and biographical introd. by William Benham

“When loneliness comes stalking, go into the fields, consider the orderliness of the world.”

World Loneliness Fields Stalking Orderliness

Book:Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver

Source: Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver

“It's the hardest thing to be alone in being satisfied with what one's done.”

Done Loneliness Satisfied Hardest Hardest Thing

Book:Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters

Source: Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters

“We are largely the playthings of our fears. To one, fear of the dark; to another, of physical pain; to a third, of public ridicule; to a fourth, of poverty; to a fifth, of loneliness ... for all of us, our particular creature waits in ambush.”

Pain Fear Waiting Dark Poverty Loneliness Particular Creatures Thirds Fourth Ridicule Fifth Physical Pain Ambush

Author:Horace Walpole

“My greatest affliction... is perhaps the major theme of my writings, the affliction of loneliness that follows me like a shadow, a very ponderous shadow too heavy to drag after me all of my days and nights.”

Writing Night Loneliness Majors Shadow Heavy Theme Drag Affliction Day And Night Follow Me

Book:Memoirs

Source: Memoirs

“You see, to me, the art of music is listening to it, not playing it. The real art of it is hearing it.”

Art Real Loneliness Listening Music Is Hearing

Author:Keith Richards

“You ache with loneliness one night so much you weep and I say 'here is a rope tie it around me Hafiz will be your companion for life'.”

Night Loneliness Ties Companion Ache Rope One Night Hafiz

Author:Hafez

“I am alone and my spiritual journey is my experience.' This is the real experience of freedom and independence. Then we begin to see that being alone is a very beautiful thing. Nobody is obstructing our vision. We have complete panoramic vision.”

Real Beautiful Spiritual Vision Journey Loneliness Independence Beautiful Things Very Beautiful Spiritual Journey

Author:Chogyam Trungpa

“Stripped of all their masquerades, the fears of men are quite identical: the fear of loneliness, rejection, inferiority, unmanageable anger, illness and death.”

Men Loneliness Illness Rejection Identical Inferiority Masquerade Illness And Death

Author:Joshua L. Liebman

“Oh, I am a lonely painter / I live in a box of paints.”

Loneliness Lonely Paint Boxes Painter

Author:Joni Mitchell

“All the lonely people, where do they all come from?”

People Loneliness Lonely Lonely People Beatles Love

Author:Paul McCartney

“Well, being the youngest child and frail, I was left alone a great deal of the time.”

Wells Children Left Deals Loneliness Well Being Left Alone Frail Youngest Child

Author:Andrew Wyeth

“I think I'm Swedish because I like to live here on this island. You can't imagine the loneliness and isolation in this country. In that way, I'm very Swedish - I don't dislike to be alone.”

Thinking Way Country Imagine Loneliness Islands Isolation Dislike Swedish

Book:Ingmar Bergman: Interviews

Source: Ingmar Bergman: Interviews

“Solitude without togetherness deteriorates into loneliness. One needs strong roots in togetherness to be solitary rather than lonely when one is alone.”

Needs Strong Loneliness Solitude Roots Lonely Solitary Togetherness Strong Roots

Book:A listening heart: the art of contemplative living

Source: A listening heart: the art of contemplative living

“Loneliness... has very little to do with location. It's a state of mind. In the centre of every city are some of the loneliest people in the world... because our whole planet was just outside the window, I felt even more... connected to the seven billion other people.”

People World Mind Littles States Whole Earth Felt Cities Loneliness Planets Window Seven Connected Billions State Of Mind Location Centre

Author:Chris Hadfield

“I was sad to leave Europe in 1890, after my student days in Germany... But then, once back in New York, I experienced an intense longing for Europe, for its vital tradition of music, theatre, art, craftsmanship... I felt bewildered and lonely. How was I to use myself?”

Art Use Felt Loneliness New York Students Europe Tradition Lonely Longing Theatre Intense Germany Bewildered Craftsmanship

Book:Alfred Stieglitz

Source: Alfred Stieglitz

“Nothing is quite as bad as being without privacy and lonely at the same time.”

Loneliness Lonely Privacy

Author:Alexander Theroux

“The romantic artist, off alone in his storm-battered castle, fuming whole worlds from his brain, reflects his culture's most persistent myth, of God creating from a primal loneliness.”

World Whole Artist Culture Brain Loneliness Creating Storm Myth Whole World Persistent Castles Primal Battered

Book:Confessions of a conservative

Source: Confessions of a conservative

“Loneliness cannot be shared.”

Ability Loneliness

Author:Randall Dale Adams

“It brings spiritual warfare and suffering for the priest as he identifies with those who suffer, and shares the frustrations, anger, and incomprehensibility of that suffering in what it does to those who suffer. The priest shares in these struggles of his suffering people, the uncertainties it brings, the sense of divine abandonment it induces, and the loneliness caused.”

People Doe Spiritual Suffering Struggle Share Loneliness Divine Uncertainty Frustration Priests Warfare Abandonment Spiritual Warfare

Author:Arthur Middleton

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