Loneliness Quotes and Sayings
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
Mother Teresa
The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.
Mother Teresa
We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we’re not alone.
Orson Welles
Loneliness is the most terrible poverty.
Mother Teresa
Loneliness is the ultimate poverty
Abigail Van Buren
When we truly realize that we are all alone is when we need others the most.
Ronald Anthony
Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
Dag Hammarskjöld
Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.
Henry Rollins
Loneliness breaks the spirit.
Jewish Proverb
Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate.
Germaine Greer
Life without a friend and a loved one can be crushingly lonely. Don’t let loneliness creep into your life. Open the gates of your heart and allow others to reach out to you. Soon a special someone may walk into your life and get rid of your loneliness.
Anonymous
Loneliness accepted becomes a gift leading one from a life dominated by tears to the discovery of one’s true self and finally to the heart of longing and the love of God.
Anonymous
Loneliness the clearest of crystal insight into your own soul, its the fear of one’s own self that haunts the lonely.
Keith Haynie
It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.
Albert Einstein
Loneliness is about the scariest thing there is.
Anonymous
They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts.
Sir Philip Sidney
If you are afraid of being lonely, don’t try to be right.
Jules Renard
Loneliness is part of being human. It reminds us that we are not complete in ourselves.
David Runcorn
It is usually expensive and lonely to be principled.
Paul Theroux
To be alone is the fate of all great minds – a fate deplored at times, but still always chosen as the less grievous of two evils.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Loneliness is the first thing which God’s eye named, not good.
John Milton
Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man.
Thomas Wolfe
At the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep and powerful yearning for union with one’s lost self.
Brendan Francis Behan
Language… 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.
Paul Tillich
Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.
May Sarton
With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only a reflection of themselves.
Eric Hoffer
Strife is better than loneliness.
Irish Proverb
Loneliness is the unloneliest feeling in the world, as everyone has experienced it.
Jarod Kintz
The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.
Thomas Wolfe
People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.
Joseph F. Newton
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