Loneliness Quotes

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty. (Mother Teresa)
If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. View quote
Anton Chekhov
Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for. View quote
Dag Hammarskjöld
Friendship needs no wordsit is a loneliness relieved of the anguish of loneliness. View quote
Dag Hammarskjöld
You can have everything in the world and still be the loneliest man. And that is the most bitter type of loneliness, success has brought me world idolisation and millions of pounds. But it's prevented me from having the one thing we all need: A loving, ongoing relationship. View quote
Freddie Mercury
The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself. View quote
Mark Twain
Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate. View quote
Germaine Greer
What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear. View quote
Dag Hammarskjöld
What loneliness is more lonely than distrust? View quote
George Eliot
The eternal quest of the human being is to shatter his loneliness. View quote
Norman Cousins
We have all known the long loneliness, and we have found that the answer is community. (Dorothy Day)
Music was invented to confirm human loneliness. View quote
Lawrence Durrell
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. View quote
Bertrand Russell
When I decided to be a singer, my mother warned me I'd be alone a lot. Basically we all are. Loneliness comes with life. View quote
Whitney Houston
In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable. View quote
John Steinbeck
Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion. View quote
Joseph Conrad
Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self. View quote
May Sarton
The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness. View quote
Edward Gibbon
You write a story about loneliness, and you grab them all because everybody's an expert on that one. View quote
Theodore Sturgeon
The opposite of Loneliness is not Togetherness, It's Intimacy. View quote
Richard Bach
Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon. (Woody Allen)
We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread, but there are many more dying for a little love. View quote
Mother Teresa
Loneliness as a situation can be corrected, but as a state of mind it is an incurable illness. View quote
Vladimir Nabokov
A woman who is willing to be herself and pursue her own potential runs not so much the risk of loneliness as the challenge of exposure to more interesting men - and people in general. View quote
Lorraine Hansberry
What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured. View quote
Kurt Vonnegut