Loneliness Quotes

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
Mother Teresa

Feeling, Poverty, Terrible

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
Maya Angelou

Music, Between, Space

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.
Paul Tillich

Alone, Pain, Word

Anger is a manifestation of a deeper issue... and that, for me, is based on insecurity, self-esteem and loneliness.
Naomi Campbell

Anger, Insecurity, Based

It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.
Benjamin Britten

Love, Beauty, Music

An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.
Henry Miller

Alone, Artist, Needs

Loneliness is my least favorite thing about life. The thing that I'm most worried about is just being alone without anybody to care for or someone who will care for me.
Anne Hathaway

Life, Alone, Care

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

Life, Beauty, Night

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

Today, Young, Lives

Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.
Bertrand Russell

Love, Women, Men

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

Powerful, Deep, Self

A woman who is willing to be herself and pursue her own potential runs not so much the risk of loneliness, as the challenge of exposure to more interesting men - and people in general.
Lorraine Hansberry

Men, Woman, Challenge

Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
Dag Hammarskjold

Friendship, Words, Solitude

Yet it is in this loneliness that the deepest activities begin. It is here that you discover act without motion, labor that is profound repose, vision in obscurity, and, beyond all desire, a fulfillment whose limits extend to infinity.
Thomas Merton

Here, Vision, Desire

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

Great, Live, May

My peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication - it makes them sociable. I, however, cannot force myself to use drugs to cheat on my loneliness - it is all that I have - and when the drugs and alcohol dissipate, will be all that my peers have as well.
Franz Kafka

Through, Cannot, Alcohol

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.
Woody Allen

Life, Suffering, Full

Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.
Ferdinand Marcos

Leadership, Alone, Everything

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.
Anna Louise Strong

Love, Human, Hard

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

Great, Used, Times

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

Someone, Felt, Cruel

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

Makes, Share, Bear

Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It 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.
Paul Tillich

Alone, Pain, Two

We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.
Albert Schweitzer

Together, Dying

If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.
Anton Chekhov

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.
Yousuf Karsh

Great, Men, Alone

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

Alone, Pain, Solitude

A man in a bookstore buys a book on loneliness and every woman in the store hits on him. A woman buys a book on loneliness and the store clears out.
Doug Coupland

Woman, Book, Him

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.
Whitney Houston

Life, Alone, Mother

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
George Eliot

Lonely, Distrust

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