--- title: "7 Great Loneliness Quotes by 7 authors" description: "Browse 7 Great Loneliness quotes by 7 authors. Discover the best Great Loneliness sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7b3/elizabeth-lesser-1683_alive_the-great-loneliness-like-the-loneliness_186012.jpg" --- > [The great loneliness- like the loneliness a caterpillar endures when she wraps herself in a silky shroud and begins the long transformation…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-lesser/the-great-loneliness-like-the-loneliness-a-caterpillar-endures-when/) [Elizabeth Lesser](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-lesser/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7b3/elizabeth-lesser-1683_alive_the-great-loneliness-like-the-loneliness_186012.jpg) > [What is the emotion of an empty inbox? An unliked Post? An ignored dating app message? I think there's a great loneliness…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-weinstein/what-is-the-emotion-of-an-empty-inbox-an-unliked-post-an-ignored/) [Alexander Weinstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-weinstein/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2f5/alexander-weinstein-17341_apps_what-is-the-emotion-of-an-empty-inbox-an_464017.jpg) > [It was a time of great loneliness. He had a group of friends, and suddenly I had no one and did not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/taylor-swift/it-was-a-time-of-great-loneliness-he-had-a-group-of-friends-and/) [Taylor Swift](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/taylor-swift/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/76f/taylor-swift-125_friendship_it-was-a-time-of-great-loneliness-he-had_658435.jpg) > [In my adolescence, I think I felt very outcast; I felt lonely. I felt great loneliness, and sometimes I wouldn't partake in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-leunig/in-my-adolescence-i-think-i-felt-very-outcast-i-felt-lonely-i-felt/) [Michael Leunig](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-leunig/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/45a/michael-leunig-2274_adolescence_in-my-adolescence-i-think-i-felt-very-ou_1535867.png) > [“She loved sinking into her bed on evenings like this, but apparently she shouldn't, because it worried her aunts, who thought she…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laura-florand/she-loved-sinking-into-her-bed-on-evenings-like-this-but-apparently/) [Laura Florand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laura-florand/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/056/laura-florand-28157_books_she-loved-sinking-into-her-bed-on-evenin_2075200.jpg) > [“The lives of men who have to live in our great cities are often tragically lonely. In many more ways than one,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-wolfe/the-lives-of-men-who-have-to-live-in-our-great-cities-are-often/) [Thomas Wolfe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-wolfe/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/028/thomas-wolfe-4237_desolate_the-lives-of-men-who-have-to-live-in-our_2284577.png) > [The completeness of this transformation appalled me. It was unlike anything I had imagined. I became two men, the serving one, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-howard-griffin/the-completeness-of-this-transformation-appalled-me-it-was-unlike/) [John Howard Griffin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-howard-griffin/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ba7/john-howard-griffin-21519_change_the-completeness-of-this-transformation_3096347.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/great-loneliness/#itemlist", "name": "Great Loneliness Quotes", "numberOfItems": 7, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The great loneliness- like the loneliness a caterpillar endures when she wraps herself in a silky shroud and begins the long transformation from chrysalis to butterfly. It seems we too must go through such a time, when life as we have known it is over- when being a caterpillar feels somehow false and yet we don’t know who we are supposed to become. All we know is that something bigger is calling us to change. 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