Quotes about Loneliness

In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.

And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.

All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.

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.

Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination, and that's all you have.

The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

It is better to be alone than in bad company.

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

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

It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.

One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.

You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.

Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.

Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life; they feed the soul. When writers make us shake our heads with the exactness of their prose and their truths, and even make us laugh about ourselves or life, our buoyancy is restored. We are given a shot at dancing with, or at least clapping along with, the absurdity of life, instead of being squashed by it over and over again. It's like singing on a boat during a terrible storm at sea. You can't stop the raging storm, but singing can change the hearts and spirits of the people who are together on that ship.

Love is fed by the imagination, by which we become wiser than we know, better than we feel, nobler than we are: by which we can see Life as a whole: by which, and by which alone, we can understand others in their real as in their ideal relations.

And this is the simple truth - that to live is to feel oneself lost. He who accepts it has already begun to find himself, to be on firm ground. Instinctively, as do the shipwrecked, he will look around for something to which to cling, and that tragic, ruthless glance, absolutely sincere, because it is a question of his salvation, will cause him to bring order into the chaos of his life. These are the only genuine ideas; the ideas of the shipwrecked. All the rest is rhetoric, posturing, farce.

It's vital to remember who you really are. It's very important. It isn't a good idea to rely on other people to do it for you, you see. They always get it wrong.

Better to join in with humanity than to set ourselves apart.

Loneliness is not cured by human company. Loneliness is cured by contact with reality.

Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets.

Perhaps a great love is never returned. Had it been given warmth and shelter by its counterpart in the Other, perhaps it would have been hindered from ever growing to maturity.
It "gives" us nothing.
But in its world of loneliness it leads us up to the summits with wide vistas - of great insights.

When we are desperate for love, there are ONLY wrong places to look.

Willing to experience aloneness,
I discover connection everywhere;
Turning to face my fear,
I meet the warrior who lives within;
Opening to my loss,
I am given unimaginable gifts;
Surrendering into emptiness,
I find fullness without end.

Each condition I flee from pursues me.
Each condition I welcome transforms me
And becomes itself transformed…

Do not steal something that already belongs to you or pine for people who are sitting right next to you.

Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.

Being friendless taught me how to be a friend. Funny how that works.

These are frightening times...when she feels herself annointed by loneliness.

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