And because of our selfishness, we will be condemned to the worst torture humankind ever invented for itself: loneliness. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“I became hypnotized by my own loneliness, unwilling to stop until my eyes wouldn't stay open anymore, watching the white line of… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“There are two essential kinds of loneliness: that of not having found someone to love, and that of having been deprived of… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“I have called my tiny community a world, and so its isolation made it; and yet there was among us but a… — W.E.B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
“I know exactly what my future looks like and I'm okay with it. I'm happy to live in solitude. I'm not afraid… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
Because he learned about happiness, he feels lonely for the first time. And because he knows unhappiness, he understands happiness for the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We are all lone souls. It pays to know humility, lest the delusion of control, of mastery, overwhelms. And, indeed, we seem… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
The idea of the 'lone gamer' is really not true anymore. Up to 65 percent of gaming now is social, played either… — Jane McGonigal Copy Share Image
It's paradoxical that where people are the most closely crowded, in the big coastal cities in the East and West, the loneliness… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
“Even if you are alive somewhere, the absence of the other person who used to be there beside you obliterates your presence.… — Hwang Sŏk-yŏng Copy Share Image
Thy soul shall find itself alone ’Mid dark thoughts of the gray tombstone— Not one, of all the crowd, to pry Into… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
The simplest spiritual discipline is some degree of solitude and silence. But it's the hardest, because none of us want to be… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
There is nothing more difficult to outgrow than anxieties that have become useful to us, whether as explanations for a life that… — Christian Wiman Copy Share Image
[...] We have to realize that this wound [of loneliness] is inherent in the human condition and that what we have to… — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
“As for other acquaintances – there is a chill air surrounding those who are down in the world and people are glad… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I tried to find you at the bottom of a bottle/ Laying down on the bathroom floor/ My loneliness was a rattle… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I am vehemently grateful that, by whatever means, I learned to assume that loneliness should be in part pleasure, sensitizing and clarifying,… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Prayer is an end to isolation. It is living our daily life with someone; with him who alone can deliver us from… — Georges Lefebvre Copy Share Image
We the living, should not think of the dead as lonely because if they could speak to us, they would say: "Do… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Fear is the process of the mind in the struggle of becoming. In becoming good there is the fear of evil; in… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Who can really distinguish between the sea and what's reflected in it? Or tell the difference between the falling rain and loneliness? — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I HIDE myself within my flower That wearing on your breast, You, unsuspecting, wear me too— And angels know the rest. I… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
There have been times in my life when I have felt I was lonely, but I don't think you want to live… — Harrison Ford Copy Share Image
Now I know what loneliness is, I think. Momentary loneliness, anyway. It comes from a vague core of the self - -… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“This he thinks is the secret to New York City’s vast productivity: everyone works all the time to avoid facing their loneliness.” — Chris Pavone Copy Share Image
“Loneliness pressed down on Ye like a giant hand, and she felt herself being crushed; compressed until she was so small that… — Liu Cixin Copy Share Image
I LOVED YOU because I Love You. No other definition to that. I chose to be with you cause I wanted to.… — Dan Mike Cañada Copy Share Image
Stripped of all their masquerades, the fears of men are quite identical: the fear of loneliness, rejection, inferiority, unmanageable anger, illness and… — Joshua L. Liebman Copy Share Image
I like the idea of isolation. I like the reality of it. You realize what you are... not that the knowledge is… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
“I am a lonely man,' Sensei said. 'And so I am glad that you come to see me. But I am also… — Natsume Sōseki Copy Share Image
Oh! death will find me, long before I tire Of watching for you; and swing me suddenly Into the shade and loneliness… — Rupert Brooke Copy Share Image
Life is something where things are unpredictable, people are weird, relations are strange, expectations are hurt smiles are fake, still one keeps… — Tamjeed Copy Share Image
“I've been clinging to this world like a discarded shell of an insect stuck to a branch, about to be blown off… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Just like you mistook lust for love, you have mistaken with being alone for loneliness. So I'm fine. Thanks for asking.” — pleasefindthis Copy Share Image
When you walk into a room, and you're the only one of something - the only woman or the only African American… — Stacy Brown-Philpot Copy Share Image
“Loneliness is not about what happens when you are alone, but what happens when you are with others. It is about how… — Kim Fay Copy Share Image
To live a spiritual life we must first find the courage to enter into the desert of loneliness and to change it… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
No one can live without relationship. You may withdraw into the mountains, become a monk, a sannyasi, wander off into the desert… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Alone let him constantly meditate in solitude on that which is salutary for his soul, for he who meditates in solitude attains… — Guru Nanak Copy Share Image
loneliness is not a longing for company, it is a longing for kind. And kind means people who can see you who… — Marilyn French Copy Share Image
![“[...] We have to realize that this wound [of loneliness] is inherent in the human condition and that what we have to do is walk with it instead of fleeing from it. We cannot accept it until we discover that we are loved by God just as we are, and that the Holy Spirit in a mysterious way is living…” quote by Jean Vanier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/9d5/jean-vanier-3367_accepting_we-have-to-realize-that-this-wound-of-lo_1933911.jpg)
