Loneliness Quotes - page 4

Birth is the start of loneliness and loneliness the start of poetry. (Erica Jong)
There is no loneliness like the loneliness of crowds, especially to those who are unaccustomed to them. View quote
H. Rider Haggard
I really love baseball. The guys and the game, and I love the challenge of describing things. The only thing I hate - and I know you have to be realistic and pay the bills in this life - is the loneliness on the road. View quote
Vin Scully
Loneliness comes in two basic varieties. When it results from a desire for solitude, loneliness is a door we close against the world. When the world instead rejects us, loneliness is an open door, unused. View quote
Dean Koontz
I should be glad of loneliness And hours that go on broken wings, A thirsty body, a tired heart And the unchanging ache of things, If I could make a single song As lovely and as full of light, As hushed and brief as a falling star On a winter night. View quote
Sara Teasdale
The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend! View quote
Edith Wharton
I did not love you out or boredom or loneliness or caprice. I loved you because the desire for you was stronger than any happiness. View quote
Alessandro Baricco
What do you care? You always liked loneliness better than you liked people. No offence - liking yourself's the beginning of all love. View quote
Fritz Leiber
I will never say the things that I want to say to you. I know the damage it would do. I love you more than I hate my loneliness and pain. View quote
Henry Rollins
I felt his hot tears and the loneliness of man and the sweetness of all men and the aching haunting beauty of the living. View quote
John Fante
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 the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly. (Hilaire Belloc)
If there is a look of human eyes that tells of perpetual loneliness, so there is also the familiar look that is the sign of perpetual crowds. View quote
Alice Meynell
As with many people, Charles, who could not talk, wrote with fullness. He set down his loneliness and his perplexities, and he put on paper many things he did not know about himself. View quote
John Steinbeck
A child blind from birth doesn't even know he's blind until someone tells him. Even then he has only the most academic idea of what blindness is; only the formerly sighted have a real grip on the thing. Ben Hanscom had no sense of being lonely because he had never been anything but. If the condition had been new, or more localized, he might have understood, but loneliness both encompassed his life and overreached it. View quote
Stephen King
Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible. View quote
Carl Jung
The loneliness you get by the sea is personal and alive. It doesn't subdue you and make you feel abject. It's stimulating loneliness. View quote
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
The loneliness of the man is slowly being borne in upon me. There is not a man aboard but hates or fears him, nor is there a man whom he does not despise. View quote
Jack London
After all who doesn't wish to make a spectacle of their loneliness. View quote
Nicole Krauss
To be lonely is to feel unwanted and unloved, and therefor unloveable. Loneliness is a taste of death. No wonder some people who are desperately lonely lose themselves in mental illness or violence to forget the inner pain. View quote
Jean Vanier
The sound of loneliness makes me happier. View quote
Conor Oberst
I also wanted to express the strength of cinema to hide reality, while being entertaining. Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness. (Pedro Almodóvar)
It always strikes me, and it is very peculiar, that when we see the image of indescribable and unutterable desolation - of loneliness, of poverty and misery, the end of all things, or their extreme - then rises in our mind the thought of God. View quote
Vincent van Gogh
Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It 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. View quote
Paul Tillich
My peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication - it makes them sociable. I, however, cannot force myself to use drugs to cheat on my loneliness - it is all that I have - and when the drugs and alcohol dissipate, will be all that my peers have as well. View quote
Franz Kafka
We are born helpless. As soon as we are fully conscious we discover loneliness. We need others physically, emotionally, intellectually; we need them if we are to know anything, even ourselves. View quote
C. S. Lewis