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Top Quotes About Loneliness
In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.
John Steinbeck
Inexplicable
Loneliness
Writer
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.
Tom Wolfe
Being
Belief
Conviction
Existence
Fact
Life
Loneliness
Men
Now
What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.
Kurt Vonnegut
Disease
Loneliness
People
Today
The loneliness is when you pick up and move, even if you are not originally from that place, and you have some memories that you want to embrace. Having a life in transit, I feel like you are always looking out the back window.
Ajay Naidu
Life
Loneliness
Memories
Want
The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness.
Norman Cousins
Being
Loneliness
Quest
It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.
Benjamin Britten
Beauty
Disappointment
Freedom
Loneliness
Love
Music
Nature
Strength
Yoga is a way to freedom. By its constant practice, we can free ourselves from fear, anguish and loneliness.
Indra Devi
Fear
Freedom
Loneliness
Practice
Yoga
Gatherings and, simultaneously, loneliness are the conditions of a writer’s life.
Jerzy Kosinski
Life
Loneliness
Writer
Loneliness is about the scariest thing out there.
Joss Whedon
Loneliness
Loneliness is proof that your innate search for connection is intact.
Martha Beck
Connection
Loneliness
Proof
You write a story about loneliness, and you grab them all because everybody’s an expert on that one.
Theodore Sturgeon
Loneliness
My peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication – it makes them sociable. I, however, cannot force myself to use drugs to cheat on my loneliness – it is all that I have – and when the drugs and alcohol dissipate, will be all that my peers have as well.
Franz Kafka
Alcohol
Companionship
Drugs
Force
Loneliness
Will
Writing is an antidote for loneliness.
Steven Berkoff
Loneliness
Writing
I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.
Carson McCullers
Loneliness
People
Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.
Vicki Baum
Fame
Loneliness
Lonely
Success
There were times when I had great times with my brothers, pillow fights and things, but I was, used to always cry from loneliness.
Michael Jackson
Brothers
Loneliness
The surest cure for vanity is loneliness.
Tom Wolfe
Cure
Loneliness
Vanity
To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.
Anna Louise Strong
Cause
Loneliness
Love
Quest
Worth
A blank wall of social and professional antagonism faces the woman physician that forms a situation of singular and painful loneliness, leaving her without support, respect or professional counsel.
Elizabeth Blackwell
Faces
Loneliness
Respect
Support
Woman
Moon! Moon! I am prone before you. Pity me, and drench me in loneliness.
Amy Lowell
Loneliness
Pity
Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone.
Paul Tillich
Being
Glory
Loneliness
Pain
Solitude
I also wanted to express the strength of cinema to hide reality, while being entertaining. Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness.
Pedro Almodovar
Being
Cinema
Life
Loneliness
Reality
Strength
The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.
Edward Gibbon
Beginning
End
Loneliness
Talk
Thinking
Loneliness is the universal problem of rich people.
Joan Collins
Loneliness
People
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
Loneliness
People
Radical
Society
Vision
When I decided to be a singer, my mother warned me I’d be alone a lot. Basically we all are. Loneliness comes with life.
Whitney Houston
Life
Loneliness
Mother
Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate.
Germaine Greer
Loneliness
What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
George Eliot
Distrust
Loneliness
Lonely
Oh, this absolute loneliness and the game – loving to play the game, loving to go and tell stories to men that certainly weren’t true, just for the sport of it, just to see how they would react.
Jennifer Beals
Loneliness
Men
Play
We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.
Albert Schweitzer
Dying
Loneliness
I really love baseball. The guys and the game, and I love the challenge of describing things. The only thing I hate – and I know you have to be realistic and pay the bills in this life – is the loneliness on the road.
Vin Scully
Baseball
Challenge
Hate
Life
Loneliness
Love
Road
The directing of a picture involves coming out of your individual loneliness and taking a controlling part in putting together a small world. A picture is made. You put a frame around it and move on. And one day you die. That is all there is to it.
John Huston
Day
Loneliness
World
Loneliness seems to have become the great American disease.
John Corry
American
Disease
Loneliness
The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
Mother Teresa
Being
Feeling
Loneliness
Poverty
Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man.
Thomas Wolfe
Experience
Loneliness
Man
Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
Dag Hammarskjold
Loneliness
May
We have all known the long loneliness, and we have found that the answer is community.
Dorothy Day
Community
Loneliness
I would have to say loneliness is next to uncleanliness.
Janeane Garofalo
Loneliness
I had become, with the approach of night, once more aware of loneliness and time – those two companions without whom no journey can yield us anything.
Lawrence Durrell
Journey
Loneliness
Night
Time
Yield
The principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television. What happens is that the family ‘gets together’ alone.
Ashley Montagu
Country
Family
Loneliness
Television
Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.
Lawrence Durrell
Loneliness
Music
Nothing makes us more vulnerable than loneliness, except greed.
Thomas Harris
Greed
Loneliness
Nothing
Forget sex or politics or religion, loneliness is the subject that clears out a room.
Doug Coupland
Forget
Loneliness
Politics
Religion
Sex
The surest sign of age is loneliness.
Annie Dillard
Age
Loneliness
A woman who is willing to be herself and pursue her own potential runs not so much the risk of loneliness, as the challenge of exposure to more interesting men – and people in general.
Lorraine Hansberry
Challenge
Loneliness
Men
People
Potential
Risk
Woman
Yet it is in this loneliness that the deepest activities begin. It is here that you discover act without motion, labor that is profound repose, vision in obscurity, and, beyond all desire, a fulfillment whose limits extend to infinity.
Thomas Merton
Act
Desire
Fulfillment
Infinity
Labor
Limits
Loneliness
Obscurity
Vision
Loneliness is the ultimate poverty.
Abigail Van Buren
Loneliness
Poverty
If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.
Anton Chekhov
Loneliness
In the past I have never thought about loneliness when working, and I don’t think about it now. Yet there must be a reason for the fact that so many people talk about it.
Alberto Giacometti
Fact
Loneliness
Now
Past
People
Reason
Talk
Thought
An artist is always alone – if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.
Henry Miller
Artist
Loneliness
Needs
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