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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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The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.
-Lorraine Hansberry
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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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Books about Loneliness
