Loneliness Quotes
Words on solitude, pain, and quiet comfort
These loneliness quotes note how isolation can follow even great achievement, since high personal standards can leave people feeling apart from others. Some find that reading offers a way to keep Alone-ness at a manageable distance.
Feelings such as loneliness, longing or love are sometimes hard to put into words; maybe that's why we all love music, because it resonates with something we can't share.
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.
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Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.
Alone Quotes
To Tennessee Williams we owe a special debt. In a tragic age, he has transformed loneliness by naming it for us, suffered sordidness with beauty, graced poor hurt lives with love and pity.
Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.
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.
Darkness Quotes
There's a difference between solitude and loneliness. I can understand the concept of being a monk for a while.
Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man.
You write a story about loneliness, and you grab them all because everybody's an expert on that one.
Pain Quotes
When you walk into a room, and you're the only one of something - the only woman or the only African American - that immediate feeling of loneliness happens.
The older generation had greater respect for land than science. But we live in an age when science, more than soil, has become the provider of growth and abundance. Living just on the land creates loneliness in an age of...
Where the despair of loneliness and poverty haunts every hour, the optimism to embark on new projects cannot find a place to alight on the brain's cortex. Poverty itself is an enormous obstacle to an enlightened and enlightening - not...
I never really had any close friends in India, and I felt a terrible loneliness and isolation for many years. Westernized Indians don't like my books and I tend not to like westernized Indians - so we're quits.
Silence Quotes
The loneliest ebb of my life came on that Christmas eve, only one day after my arrival in New York. The abyss of loneliness. I ate a solitary dinner in a small cafe, and the very food tasted bitter with...
