Lonely Quotes - Page 4

• The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

  Mark Twain

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Mark Twain (2016). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.116, Chartwell

  163 Copy quote

  Show source

• To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Sad, Broken Heart, Loneliness

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.211

  21 Copy quote

  Show source

• Language... has created the word 'loneliness' to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word 'solitude' to express the glory of being alone.

  Paul Tillich

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Pain

  57 Copy quote

• Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination.

  Mary Oliver

  Imagination, Wild Geese, World

  Mary Oliver (2006). “Owls and Other Fantasies: Poems and Essays”, p.9, Beacon Press

  74 Copy quote

  Show source

• We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Sad, Loneliness, Being Alone

  30 Copy quote

• The lonely become either thoughtful or empty.

  Mason Cooley

  Thoughtful, Feeling Alone, Empty

  17 Copy quote

• The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.

  Voltaire

  Happiness, Solitude, Life Is

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

  95 Copy quote

  Show source

• It is better to be alone than in bad company.

  Unknown

  Inspirational, Friendship, Life Changing

  275 Copy quote

• 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

  Loneliness, Being Alone, Acceptance

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

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• Be good and you will be lonely.

  Mark Twain

  Loneliness, Being Alone, Peer Pressure

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.247, Courier Corporation

  28 Copy quote

  Show source

• The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside

  Anne Frank

  Nature, Loneliness, Being Alone

  Anne Frank, General Press (2016). “The Diary of a Young Girl”, p.107, GENERAL PRESS

  52 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  Loneliness, Being Alone, People

  8 Copy quote

• The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Friendship, Loneliness, Being Alone

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.112, Penguin

  19 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Honore de Balzac

  Loneliness, Being Alone, Solitude

  19 Copy quote

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

  Henry Miller

  Music, Loneliness, Artist

  Henry Miller (1977). “Tropic of Cancer”

  36 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  Loneliness, Book, Men

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

  52 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  Loneliness, Greed, Feelings

  474 Copy quote

• The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

  Aldous Huxley

  Powerful, Loneliness, Being Alone

  Aldous Huxley (1957). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley”

  185 Copy quote

  Show source
• 

  Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.

  Henry Rollins

  Life, Depressing, Loneliness

  289 Copy quote

• Loneliness is the first thing which God's eye named not good.

  John Milton

  Loneliness, Being Alone, Eye

  John Milton (2009). “The Complete Poetry and Essential Prose of John Milton”, p.997, Modern Library

  36 Copy quote

  Show source

• There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.

  Dante Alighieri

  Inspirational, Happiness, Sad

  Dante Alighieri, Stanley Lombardo (2009). “Inferno”, p.26, Hackett Publishing

  86 Copy quote

  Show source

• Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Faith, Brother

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

  88 Copy quote

  Show source

• The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Love, Loneliness, Inspiration

  "To My Daughters, With Love (To You on Your First Birthday)". Book by Pearl S. Buck, 1967.

  27 Copy quote

  Show source

• A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Men, Thinking, Feeling Alone

  12 Copy quote

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

  Tennessee Williams

  Loneliness, Selfish, Would Be

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

  24 Copy quote

  Show source