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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.

Quotes by Agnes Obel

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.

Quotes by Yousuf Karsh

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

Quotes by Woody Allen

Reading - the best state yet to keep absolute loneliness at bay.

Quotes by William Styron

Alone Quotes

The dominant feeling of the battlefield is loneliness.

Quotes by William Slim

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.

Quotes by William Jay Smith

I think one of the most poignant things is unrequited love and loneliness.

Quotes by Wilbur Smith

Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

Quotes by Vicki Baum

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.

Quotes by Tom Wolfe

Darkness Quotes

There's a difference between solitude and loneliness. I can understand the concept of being a monk for a while.

Quotes by Tom Hanks

I believe a lot of disease comes from anxiety, loneliness.

Quotes by Tom Cochrane

Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man.

Quotes by Thomas Wolfe

Nothing makes us more vulnerable than loneliness, except greed.

Quotes by Thomas Harris

You write a story about loneliness, and you grab them all because everybody's an expert on that one.

Quotes by Theodore Sturgeon

Pain Quotes

Writing is an antidote for loneliness.

Quotes by Steven Berkoff

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.

Quotes by Stacy Brown-Philpot

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...

Quotes by Shimon Peres

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...

Quotes by Sherwin B. Nuland

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.

Quotes by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

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...

Quotes by Rudolph Valentino

Frequently Asked Questions

What's this Loneliness quotes collection about?
This page gathers quotes that sit with loneliness honestly — as a byproduct of high personal standards, as part of life's harder moments, and as something specific experiences like battle can bring out. It also touches on what can ease it, like reading. For a gentler, more comforting angle, see Prayers.
Is there a quote here about why accomplished people can still feel lonely?
Yes — the quote observing that great men are often lonely because of the high standards they set for themselves offers a thoughtful explanation for a common but confusing feeling. It suggests loneliness isn't always about circumstance, sometimes it's about expectation. That insight makes it a standout in this collection.
What about a quote that offers some comfort or relief from loneliness?
The line describing reading as one of the best ways to keep loneliness at bay is a hopeful, practical counterpoint to the heavier quotes here. It suggests a real, simple way to ease the feeling rather than just describing it. That balance of honesty and comfort is part of what makes this collection worth browsing.
Why do people search for loneliness quotes?
People look these up while sitting with isolation themselves or trying to express it to someone else - and if you're after a different kind of comfort, this topic also links to loneliness prayers alongside quotes on being alone.
What's the value in reading the whole Loneliness collection together?
Together, these quotes acknowledge loneliness in its different forms — emotional, circumstantial, even battlefield-specific — without rushing to resolve it, which can feel more honest than quotes that only offer solutions. That range makes it easier to find one that actually matches how you're feeling. For related themes of hardship, Darkness and Pain are worth exploring too.

Others describe loneliness as part of hardship or loss more broadly. For a related perspective, see our Prayers collection or browse Pain quotes.