Loneliness Quotes - Page 39

• The reason that extended solitude seemed so hard to endure was not that we missed others but that we began to wonder if we ourselves were present, because for so long our existence depended upon assurances from them.

  Doris Grumbach

  Long, Solitude, Wonder

  Doris Grumbach (2014). “Fifty Days of Solitude: A Memoir”, p.11, Open Road Media

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• Loneliness is not lack of company, loneliness is lack of purpose.

  Guillermo Maldonado

  Life, Happy, Feeling Lonely

  70 Copy quote

• The leaves are falling, falling as from way off, as though far gardens withered in the skies; they are falling with denying gestures. And in the nights the heavy earth is falling from all the stars down into loneliness. We all are falling. This hand falls. And look at others: it is in them all. And yet there is one who holds this falling endlessly gently in his hands.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Stars, Fall, Night

  9 Copy quote

• We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread, but there are many more dying for a little love.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Medicine, Despair

  Mother Teresa (1995). “A Simple Path-Open Market”

  249 Copy quote

  Show source

• I must conquer my loneliness alone. I must be happy with myself or I have nothing to offer you. Two halves have little choice but to join; and yes, they do make a whole. But two wholes when they coincide... that is beauty. That is love.

  Peter McWilliams

  Love You, Two, Choices

  Peter McWilliams (1977). “Catch me with your smile”, Blue Mountain Press

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Turn, gentle Hermit of the Dale, And guide my lonely way To where yon taper cheers the vale With hospitable ray.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Lonely, Cheer, Rays

  Oliver Goldsmith (1841). “Goldsmith's miscellaneous works”, p.5

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Some degree of withdrawal serves to nurture man's creative powers. The artist and the scientist bring out of the dark void, like the mysterious universe itself, the unique, the strange, the unexpected. Numerous observers have testified upon the loneliness of the process.

  Loren Eiseley

  Creativity, Dark, Men

  10 Copy quote

• Weeded and worn the ancient thatch Upon the lonely moated grange.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Lonely, Ancient, Worn

  'Mariana' (1830) st. 1.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm very lonely now, Mary, For the poor make no new friends; But oh they love the better still The few our Father sends!

  Hariot Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, Marchioness of Dufferin and Ava

  Love, Lonely, Father

  7 Copy quote

• We the living, should not think of the dead as lonely because if they could speak to us, they would say: "Do not weep for me, earth was not my true country, I was an alien there: I am at Home where everyone comes."

  Helen Keller

  Life, Country, Lonely

  4 Copy quote

• No one in the modern world is more lonely than the writer with a literary conscience.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Lonely, World, Modern

  Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1958). “Letters of Ellen Glasgow”

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• One leaf left on a branch and not a sound of sadness or despair. One leaf left on a branch and no unhappiness. One leaf left all by itself in the air and it does not speak of loneliness or death. One leaf and it spends itself in swaying mildly in the breeze.

  David Ignatow

  Sadness, Winter, Air

  David Ignatow (2011). “Against the Evidence: Selected Poems, 1934–1994”, p.124, Wesleyan University Press

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• Modern man's difficulties, dangerous beliefs and feelings of loneliness, spiritual emptiness,and personal weakness are caused by his illusions about, and separation from, the natural world.

  Benjamin Hoff

  Spiritual, Men, Feelings

  9 Copy quote

• Here in a little lonely room I am master of earth and sea, And the planets come to me.

  Arthur Symons

  Lonely, Sea, Earth

  Arthur Symons, Roger Holdsworth (2003). “Arthur Symons: Selected Writings”, p.59, Psychology Press

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Loneliness comes with life.

  Whitney Houston

  "Whitney Houston's Words: 20 Memorable Quotes From the Late Pop Icon", abcnews.go.com. February 15, 2012.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Lonely. I always thought loneliness meant alone, without people. It means something else.

  Lillian Hellman

  Lonely, Mean, People

  Lillian Hellman (1979). “Six Plays”, Vintage

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• Not only is there no question of solitude, but in the long run we may not choose our company.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Running, Long, Solitude

  Elizabeth Bowen (1938). “The death of the heart”, Viking Pr

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Nothing impresses the mind with a deeper feeling of loneliness than to tread the silent and deserted scene of former throng and pageant.

  Washington Irving

  Solitude, Feelings, Mind

  Washington Irving (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Washington Irving (Illustrated)”, p.159, Delphi Classics

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, whom I may whisper, solitude is sweet.

  William Cowper

  Sweet, Solitude, May

  William Cowper, Robert Southey (1854). “The Works: Comprising His Poems, Correspondence and Translations : in Eight Volumes. ¬The poetical works, Vol. 1”, p.237

  15 Copy quote

  Show source

• While you are alone you are entirely your own master and if you have one companion you are but half your own, and the less so in proportion to the indiscretion of his behavior.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Solitude, Half, Behavior

  Leonardo Da Vinci (2013). “Leonardo's Notebooks: Writing and Art of the Great Master”, p.516, Hachette UK

  19 Copy quote

  Show source

• No person loving or admiring himself is alone.

  Theodor Reik

  Solitude, Admiring, Persons

  Theodor Reik (2002). “Love and Lust: On the Psychoanalysis of Romantic and Sexual Emotions”, p.29, Transaction Publishers

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• Any man who is really a man must learn to be alone in the midst of others, to think alone for others, and, if necessary, against others.

  Romain Rolland

  Men, Thinking, Solitude

  70 Copy quote

• Most of my life I have needed more time to be on my own.

  P. D. James

  Solitude, More Time, Needed

  4 Copy quote

• I was trundling around with my inadequacies, and inner pain and loneliness. I yearned, desperately, to be something. I yearned to get out from where I was ... some deep discontent within myself, actually some deep dislike of myself.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Pain, Solitude, Discontent

  19 Copy quote

• Let those who would affect singularity with success first determine to be very virtuous, and they will be sure to be very singular.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Solitude, Firsts, Virtuous

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.211

  54 Copy quote

  Show source