Loneliness Quotes - Page 9

• 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.

  Bertrand Russell

  Love, Life, Wedding

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Marriage and Morals”, p.79, Routledge

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• 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

  Being Alone, Night, Journey

  Lawrence Durrell (2011). “Bitter Lemons of Cyprus”, p.9, Faber & Faber

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• Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain.

  Christopher Morley

  Beauty, Lonely, Pain

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• When I get lonely these days, I think: So BE lonely, Liz. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience. But never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilled yearnings.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Lonely, Being Single, Being Alone

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.67, A&C Black

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• No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Being Yourself, Lonely, Philosophical

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• Shakespeare, Leonardo da Vinci, Benjamin Franklin and Abraham Lincoln never saw a movie, heard a radio or looked at television. They had 'Loneliness' and knew what to do with it. They were not afraid of being lonely because they knew that was when the creative mood in them would work.

  Carl Sandburg

  Lonely, Learning, Creative

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• And I am not one of those women who trips twice over the same stone.

  Isabel Allende

  Stones

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• I am not one of those women who can stand things.

  William Faulkner

  William Faulkner “The Sound and the Fury”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Being Single, Single Life, Maps

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.67, A&C Black

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• if you are afraid of loneliness, don't get married

  August Strindberg

  Married, Ifs

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• Loneliness is the ultimate poverty.

  Abigail Van Buren

  Being Alone, Feeling Lonely, Poverty

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• A lonely man is a lonesome thing, a stone, a bone, a stick, a receptacle for Gilbey's gin, a stooped figure sitting at the edge of a hotel bed, heaving copious sighs like the autumn wind.

  John Cheever

  Lonely, Being Alone, Autumn

  1966 Collected in The Journals,'The Sixties'.

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• No matter how lonely you get or how many birth announcements you receive, the trick is not to get frightened. There's nothing wrong with being alone.

  Wendy Wasserstein

  Lonely, Being Alone, Acceptance

  Isn't It Romantic act 1, sc. 6 (1983)

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• Lonely people, in talking to each other can make each other lonelier.

  Lillian Hellman

  Lonely, Being Alone, Talking

  Lillian Hellman (1952). “The Autumn Garden: Play in Three Acts”, p.35, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• So lonely 'twas that God himself Scarce seemed there to be.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Lonely, Being Alone, Albatross

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1858). “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”, p.50

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• We enter the world alone, we leave it alone.

  James Anthony Froude

  Leave Me Alone, World, Home Plate

  "Short studies on great subjects".

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• There is much suffering in the world - physical, material, mental. The suffering of some can be blamed on the greed of others. The material and physical suffering is suffering from hunger, from homelessness, from all kinds of diseases. But the greatest suffering is being lonely, feeling unloved, having no one. I have come more and more to realize that it is being unwanted that is the worst disease that any human being can ever experience.

  Mother Teresa

  Lonely, Greed, Feelings

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• This is the duty of our generation as we enter the twenty-first century - solidarity with the weak, the persecuted, the lonely, the sick, and those in despair. It is expressed by the desire to give a noble and humanizing meaning to a community in which all members will define themselves not by their own identity but by that of others.

  Elie Wiesel

  Lonely, Responsibility, Our Generation

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• Maybe ever'body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.

  John Steinbeck

  People, World, Body

  John Steinbeck (2013). “Of Mice and Men: Teacher's Deluxe Edition”, p.38, Penguin

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• I sit between my brother the mountain and my sister the sea. We three are one in loneliness, and the love that binds us together is deep and strong and strange.

  Khalil Gibran

  Lonely, Strong, Brother

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• When people are lonely they stoop to any companionship.

  Lew Wallace

  Lonely, People, Companionship

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• We are never the same with others as when we are alone. We are different, even when we are in the dark with them.

  Maurice Maeterlinck

  Dark, Different

  Maurice Maeterlinck (2015). “The Treasure of the Humble: Works of Maeterlinck”, p.17, 谷月社

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• If from society we learn to live, solitude should teach us how to die.

  Lord Byron

  Solitude, Should, Teach

  Lord Byron (1854). “Childe Harold's pilgrimage”, p.188

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• Bare heights of loneliness...a wilderness whose burning winds sweep over glowing sands, what are they to HIM? Even there He can refresh us, even there He can renew us.

  Amy Carmichael

  Glowing, Wind, Burning

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• Sometimes you weren't supposed to share pain. Sometimes it was best just to deal with it alone.

  Sarah Addison Allen

  Inspirational, Life, Sad

  Sarah Addison Allen (2008). “The Sugar Queen”, p.70, Bantam

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