Loneliness Quotes
1612 quotes by 1087 authors
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Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
— Aristotle
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No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.
— Aristotle
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I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens in…
— Russell Baker
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It would do the world good if every man would compel himself occasionally to be absolutely alone. Most of the world s progress has come…
— Bruce Barton
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Loneliness is proof that your innate search for connection is intact.
— Martha Beck
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Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between…
— Hilaire Belloc
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No one ever discovers the depths of his own loneliness.
— Georges Bernanos
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But the West of the old times, with its strong characters, its stern battles and its tremendous stretches of loneliness, can never be blotted from…
— Buffalo Bill
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A blank wall of social and professional antagonism faces the woman physician that forms a situation of singular and painful loneliness, leaving her without support,…
— Elizabeth Blackwell
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Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.
— Elizabeth Bowen
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It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty…
— Benjamin Britten
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All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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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…
— Pearl S. Buck
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What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be.
— Ellen Burstyn
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I believe that you control your destiny, that you can be what you want to be. You can also stop and say, 'No, I won't…
— Leo Buscaglia
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Then stirs the feeling infinite, so felt In solitude, where we are least alone.
— Lord Byron
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Anger is a manifestation of a deeper issue... and that, for me, is based on insecurity, self-esteem and loneliness.
— Naomi Campbell
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Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man.
— Thomas Carlyle
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You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living…
— Emily Carr
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