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Loneliness breaks the spirit.
-Yiddish Proverb
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No one ever discovers the depths of his own loneliness.
-Georges Bernanos
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Only in a house where one has learnt to be lonely does one have this solicitude for things. One's relation to them, the daily seeing or touching, begins to become love, and to lay one open to pain.
-Elizabeth Bowen
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All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.
-Jean De La Bruyere
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Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man.
-Thomas Carlyle
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It is said of a lonely man that he does not appreciate the life of society. This is like saying he hates hiking because he dislikes walking in thick forest on a dark night.
-Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort
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A lonely man is a lonesome thing, a stone, a bone, a stick, a receptacle for Gilbey's gin, a stooped figure sitting at the edge of a hotel bed, heaving copious sighs like the autumn wind.
-John Cheever
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Who knows what true loneliness is -- not the conventional word, but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion. Now and then a fatal conjunction of events may lift the veil for an instant. For an instant only. No human being could bear a steady view of moral solitude without going mad.
-Joseph Conrad
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The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness.
-Norman Cousins
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What torments my soul is its loneliness. The more it expands among friends and the daily habits or pleasures, the more, it seems to me, it flees me and retires into its fortress. The poet who lives in solitude, but who produces much, is the one who enjoys those treasures we bear in our bosom, but which forsake us when we give ourselves to others. When one yields oneself completely to one's soul, it opens itself to one, and then it is that the capricious thing allows one the greatest of good fortunes... that of sympathizing with others, of studying itself, of painting itself constantly in its works.
-Eugene Delacroix
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You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.
-Wayne Dyer
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It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.
-Albert Einstein
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Columbus discovered no isle or key so lonely as himself.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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There is none more lonely than the man who loves only himself.
-Abraham Ibn Esra
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In cities no one is quiet but many are lonely; in the country, people are quiet but few are lonely.
-Geoffrey F. Fisher
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Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it. The way it tunnels into you allows your soul room to grow.
-Janet Fitch
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At the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep and powerful yearning for union with one's lost self.
-Brendan Francis
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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 and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature.
-Anne Frank
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One aged man -- one man -- can't fill a house.
-Robert Frost
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We enter the world alone, we leave the world alone.
-James A. Froude
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I was never less alone than when by myself.
-Edward Gibbon
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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
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It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes
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On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
-Janis Joplin
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Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.
-Carl Gustav Jung
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The essence of this man Richard M. Nixon is loneliness.
-Henry Kissinger
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Every time I look at you I get a fierce desire to be lonesome.
-Oscar Levant
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We are never the same with others as when we are alone. We are different, even when we are in the dark with them.
-Maurice Maeterlinck
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It's a terrible thing to be alone -- yes it is -- it is -- but don't lower your mask until you have another mask prepared beneath --as terrible as you like --but a mask.
-Katherine Mansfield
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To most people loneliness is a doom. Yet loneliness is the very thing which God has chosen to be one of the schools of training for His very own. It is the fire that sheds the dross and reveals the gold.
-Bernard M. Martin
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All men are lonely. But sometimes it seems to me that we Americans are the loneliest of all. Our hunger for foreign places and new ways has been with us almost like a national disease. Our literature is stamped with a quality of longing and unrest, and our writers have been great wanderers.
-Carson Mccullers
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In our extreme youth, in our most humiliating sorrow, we think we are alone. When we are older we find that others have suffered too.
-Suzanne Moarny
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When Christ said: I was hungry and you fed me, he didn't mean only the hunger for bread and for food; he also meant the hunger to be loved. Jesus himself experienced this loneliness. He came amongst his own and his own received him not, and it hurt him then and it has kept on hurting him. The same hunger, the same loneliness, the same having no one to be accepted by and to be loved and wanted by. Every human being in that case resembles Christ in his loneliness; and that is the hardest part, that's real hunger.
-Mother Theresa
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People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.
-Joseph Fort Newton
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Man's loneliness is but his fear of life.
-Eugene O'Neill
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A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man --the one he used to be.
-Cesare Pavese
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If you are lonely when you are alone, you are in bad company.
-Jean-Paul Sartre
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To live alone is the fate of all great souls.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
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When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone.
-Sir Walter Scott
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It is a rather pleasant experience to be alone in a bank at night.
-William Sutton
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Of my friends I am the only one left.
-Terence
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Language has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone, and the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.
-Paul Tillich
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We're all in this alone.
-Lily Tomlin
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There is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a dream, a grotesque and foolish dream. Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought --a vagrant thought, a useless thought, a homeless thought, wandering forlorn among the empty eternities!
-Mark Twain
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We are most of us very lonely in this world; you who have any who love you, cling to them and thank God.
-Source Unknown
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The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account.
-Alice Walker
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When people are lonely they stoop to any companionship.
-Lew Wallace
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I celebrate myself, and sing myself.
-Walt Whitman
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When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
-Tennessee (Thomas Lanier) Williams
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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
-Tennessee (Thomas Lanier) Williams
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The surest cure for vanity is loneliness.
-Thomas Wolfe
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Books about Loneliness
