Best loneliness & being-lonely Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“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

“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.”

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Author:Rajneesh

“I would have to say loneliness is next to uncleanliness.”

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Author:Janeane Garofalo

“Loneliness is not a fault but a condition of existence.”

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Author:Ivan Albright

“The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.”

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Author:Edward Gibbon

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

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Book:the female eunuch

Source: the female eunuch

“I think that part of being human is being alone, and being lonely. I think one of the stresses on a lot of our friendships is that we require the people we love to take away that loneliness. and they really can't. And so, when we still feel lonely, even in the company of people we love, we become angry with them because they don't do what we think they're supposed to. Which is really something that they can't do for us.”

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Author:Rich Mullins

“Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.”

“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.”

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Author:Dag Hammarskjold

“The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.”

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Author:Lorraine Hansberry

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

“When I decided to be a singer, my mother warned me I'd be alone a lot. Basically we all are. Loneliness comes with life.”

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Author:Whitney Houston

“There were times when I had great times with my brothers, pillow fights and things, but I used to always cry from loneliness.”

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Author:Michael Jackson

“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.”

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Author:Yousuf Karsh

“I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens in a hostile world.”

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Author:Russell Baker

“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.”

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Author:Bruce Barton

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

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Author:Ashley Montagu

“Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not.”

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Author:Anna Neagle

“Loneliness is proof that your innate search for connection is intact.”

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Author:Martha Beck

“If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right.”

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Author:Jules Renard

“No one ever discovers the depths of his own loneliness.”

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Book:The Diary of a Country Priest

Source: The Diary of a Country Priest

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

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Book:Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing: A Novel

Source: Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing: A Novel

“If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.”

“I like being alone and I think this movie, as much as it is an investigation of connection and people bonding, I also think it's just as much about loneliness.”

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Author:Jason Schwartzman

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

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Author:Albert Schweitzer

“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.”

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Book:Buffalo Bill's Life Story: An Autobiography

Source: Buffalo Bill's Life Story: An Autobiography

“In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.”

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Book:Journal of a Novel: The East of Eden Letters

Source: Journal of a Novel: The East of Eden Letters

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

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Author:William Styron

“Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.”

“Language... has created the word 'loneliness' to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word 'solitude' to express the glory of being alone.”

“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.”

Source: Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage

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

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Author:David Foster Wallace

“We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.”

“Loneliness is about the scariest thing out there.”

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Author:Joss Whedon

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

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Book:You Can't Go Home Again

Source: You Can't Go Home Again

“The surest cure for vanity is loneliness.”

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Author:Tom Wolfe

“Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.”

Source: Shampoo Planet

“The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely.”

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Author:Charlotte Bronte

“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.”

Source: My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel

“All great and precious things are lonely.”

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Book:East of Eden

Source: East of Eden

“Loneliness is the first thing which God's eye named not good.”

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Book:The Complete Poetry and Essential Prose of John Milton

Source: The Complete Poetry and Essential Prose of John Milton

“The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.”

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

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Author:Ellen Burstyn

“Shakespeare, Leonardo da Vinci, Benjamin Franklin and Abraham Lincoln never saw a movie, heard a radio or looked at television. They had 'Loneliness' and knew what to do with it. They were not afraid of being lonely because they knew that was when the creative mood in them would work.”

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Author:Carl Sandburg

“The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.”

“Nothing makes us more vulnerable than loneliness except greed.”

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Book:The Silence of the Lambs

Source: The Silence of the Lambs

“There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.”

Source: Inferno

“A child blind from birth doesn't even know he's blind until someone tells him. Even then he has only the most academic idea of what blindness is; only the formerly sighted have a real grip on the thing. Ben Hanscom had no sense of being lonely because he had never been anything but. If the condition had been new, or more localized, he might have understood, but loneliness both encompassed his life and overreached it.”

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Book:It

Source: It

“When we truly realize that we are all alone is when we need others the most.”

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Author:Ronald Anthony Cross

“The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.”

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Author:Cyril Connolly

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