Loneliness Quotes - Page 5

• The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Life, Lonely, Fall

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• I, however, cannot force myself to use "meat drugs" to cheat on my loneliness.

  Franz Kafka

  Vegetarianism, Alcohol, Drug

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• Real loneliness consists not in being alone, but in being with the wrong person, in the suffocating darkness of a room in which no deep communication is possible.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Real, Communication, Darkness

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• I seem forsaken and alone, / I hear the lion roar; / And every door is shut but one, / And that is Mercy's door.

  William Cowper

  Doors, Lions, Mercy

  William Cowper (1874). “The poetical works of William Cowper, ed: with notes and biographical introd. by William Benham”, p.33

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• It's the hardest thing to be alone in being satisfied with what one's done.

  Claude Monet

  Done, Hardest, Satisfied

  Claude Monet (2014). “Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters”, Chartwell

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• We're afraid that this anger or sorrow or loneliness is going to last forever... Instead, acting it out is what makes it last.

  Pema Chodron

  Forever, Sorrow, Acting

  Pema Chodron (2001). “Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living”, p.73, Shambhala Publications

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• Well, being the youngest child and frail, I was left alone a great deal of the time.

  Andrew Wyeth

  Children, Frail, Left Alone

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• I was sad to leave Europe in 1890, after my student days in Germany... But then, once back in New York, I experienced an intense longing for Europe, for its vital tradition of music, theatre, art, craftsmanship... I felt bewildered and lonely. How was I to use myself?

  Alfred Stieglitz

  Lonely, Art, New York

  Alfred Stieglitz, Dorothy Norman (1976). “Alfred Stieglitz”

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• Nothing is quite as bad as being without privacy and lonely at the same time.

  Alexander Theroux

  Lonely, Privacy

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• Sometimes you can be lucky enough to establish a working relationship with another artist who takes away the loneliness, particularly in travel and outdoor work.

  Robert Genn

  Artist, Lucky, Sometimes

  Robert Genn (1996). “The Painter's Keys: A Seminar with Robert Genn”, p.52, Studio Beckett Publications

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• I like being alone and I think this movie, as much as it is an investigation of connection and people bonding, I also think it's just as much about loneliness.

  Jason Schwartzman

  Being Alone, Thinking, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.

  John Steinbeck

  Soul, Literature, Germs

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• Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.

  Mother Teresa

  Lonely, Women, Humble

  Mother Teresa, Roger (frère) (1989). “Mary, Mother of Reconciliations”, Paulist Pr

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• Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets.

  Paul Tournier

  Love, Dream, Lonely

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• For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.

  Alice Walker

  Lonely, Freedom, Fear

  Alice Walker (2011). “In Search of Our Mother's Gardens”, p.143, Hachette UK

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• The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Single, Lonely, Companionship

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• An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.

  Henry Miller

  Music, Lonely, Artist

  Henry Miller (1977). “Tropic of Cancer”

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• The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.

  Thomas Wolfe

  Solitary Life, Facts, Belief

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• What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

  George Eliot

  Lonely, Being Alone, Trust Issues

  George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot Collection: Middlemarch, Adam Bede, Silas Marner, The Lifted Veil, and The Mill on the Floss”, p.935, Xist Publishing

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• Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.

  Honore de Balzac

  Lonely, Being Alone, Solitude

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• I've never been lonely. I like myself. I'm the best form of entertainment I have. Let's drink more wine!

  Charles Bukowski

  Lonely, Wine, Entertainment

  Charles Bukowski (2003). “Sunlight Here I Am: Interviews and Encounters, 1963-1993”

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• People drain me, even the closest of friends, and I find loneliness to be the best state in the union to live in.

  Margaret Cho

  Lonely, Being Alone, People

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• When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.

  Tennessee Williams

  Lonely, Selfish, Would Be

  Tennessee Williams (2008). “Camino Real”, p.8, New Directions Publishing

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• 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.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Being Alone, Bears, Being Lonely

  "Markings". Book by Dag Hammarskjold, 1964.

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• As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.

  Maya Angelou

  Lonely, Book, Men

  Maya Angelou (2012). “The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou”, p.393, Modern Library

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