Quotes
Quotes about Loneliness
The surest cure for vanity is loneliness.
The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness.
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.
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
Loneliness is the first thing which God's eye named, not good.
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.
Man's loneliness is but his fear of life.
Loneliness breaks the spirit.
Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.
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.
To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be. -Anna Strong.
Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate.
If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
The surest sign of age is loneliness.
Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.
It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness and of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature, and everlasting beauty of monotony.
Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
No one ever discovers the depths of his own loneliness.
To most people loneliness is a doom. Yet loneliness is the very thing which God has chosen to be one of the schools of training for His very own. It is the fire that sheds the dross and reveals the gold.
It is loneliness that makes the loudest noise. This is true of men as of dogs.
The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.The remarkable thing is that the cessation of the inner dialogue marks also the end of our concern with the world around us. It is as if we noted the world and think about it only when we have to report it to ourselves.
