Loneliness Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

23 Loneliness Quotes
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“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.”
Orson Welles Quotes
“The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.”
Mother Teresa of Calcutta Quotes
“I've got everything I need except a man. And I'm not one of those women who thinks a man is the answer to everything, but I'm tired of being alone.”
Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
“It's so lonely when you don't even know yourself.”
David Crosby Quotes
“Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.”
Henry Rollins Quotes
“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 Quotes
“Loneliness is about the scariest thing there is.”
Ronald Anthony Quotes
“Man's loneliness is but his fear of life.”
Eugene O'Neill Quotes
“To be adult is to be alone.”
Jean Rostand Quotes
“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 Quotes
“So lonely 'twas that God himself Scarce seemed there to be.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
“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.”
Joseph Conrad Quotes
“The surest cure for vanity is loneliness.”
Thomas Wolfe Quotes
“One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul, and yet no one ever comes to sit by it.”
Vincent van Gogh Quotes
“The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness.”
Norman Cousins Quotes
“The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.”
Thomas Wolfe Quotes
“People who lead a lonely existence always have something on their minds that they are eager to talk about.”
Anton Checkov Quotes
“Separate we come, and separate we go, And this be it known, is all that we know.”
Conrad Aiken Quotes
“Little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.”
Francis Bacon Quotes
“Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.”
Mother Teresa Quotes
“Be good and you will be lonely.”
Mark Twain Quotes
“People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.”
Joseph F. Newton Quotes
“The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.”
Friedrich Nietszche Quotes