Quotes and Sayings About Loneliness

Dim loneliness came imperceivably into the fields and he turned back. The birds piped oddly; some wind was caressing the higher foliage, turning it all one way, the way home. Telegraph poles ahead looked like half-used pencils; the small cross on the steeple glittered with a sharp and shapely permanence.
-- A. E. Coppard

#Loneliness #Home #Wind

Being human is the most terrible loneliness in the universe.
-- A.A. Attanasio

#Loneliness #Being Human #Terrible

Loneliness is the ultimate poverty.
-- Abigail Van Buren

#Loneliness #Being Alone #Poverty

SO the richest are often the poorest as this saying goes, "Loneliness is the ultimate poverty"
-- Abigail Van Buren

#Lonely #Loneliness #Poverty

None of the prophets old, So lofty or so bold! No form of danger shakes his dauntless breast; In loneliness sublime He dares confront the time, And speak the truth, and give the world no rest No kingly threat can cowardize his breath, He with majestic step goes forth to meet his death.
-- Abraham Coles

#Courage #Loneliness #Giving

The loneliness of the expatriate is of an odd and complicated kind, for it is inseparable from the feeling of being free, of having escaped.
-- Adam Gopnik

#Loneliness #Feelings #Being Free

You are the architect of your own loneliness.
-- Adam Shankman

#Loneliness #Architect

Maybe a first love exists to reaffirm the best parts of yourself, the choices you made when you didn't worry about the consequences. Maybe a first love exists to remind you to be brave in the moment, to stand up for your feelings, instead of shrinking back in the face of potential loneliness.
-- Adriana Trigiani

#Loneliness #First Love #Worry

It made me have a much greater understanding of loss, of loneliness, and the level of intense tragedy that so many people have experienced in this world, I take a lot less for granted.
-- Adrien Brody

#Loneliness #Loss #People

Art and literature have given so many people the relief of feeling connected - pulled us out of isolation. It has let us know that somebody else breathed and dreamed and had sex and loved and raged and knew loneliness the way we do.
-- Adrienne Rich

#Art #Sex #Loneliness

The loneliness caused by not hearing Ren's voice... I felt it deep in the night. I felt it deeper than anyone else. Even now at times I look back. In this ordinary life without Ren, I think my life with him was like a dream. Especially on a snowy night like this. On a night as cold as this. Someone keep this guy warm for me, please.
-- Ai Yazawa

#Dream #Loneliness #Night

Most of the world's great souls have been lonely. Loneliness seems to be one price the saint must pay for his saintliness... Always remember: you cannot carry a cross in company. Though a man were surrounded by a vast crowd, his cross is his alone and his carrying of it marks him as a man apart. Society has turned against him; otherwise he would have no cross. No one is a friend to the man with a cross.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer

#Christian #Lonely #Loneliness

There is a strain of loneliness infecting many Christians, which only the presence of God can cure.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer

#Christian #Loneliness #Cures

It takes loneliness in oneself to recognize it in another.
-- Aimee Carter

#Loneliness #Oneself

The loneliness is when you pick up and move, even if you are not originally from that place, and you have some memories that you want to embrace. Having a life in transit, I feel like you are always looking out the back window.
-- Ajay Naidu

#Memories #Loneliness #Moving

There is extraordinary similarities between the Midwest in America and Europe in that there is this sense of vast, open sky and loneliness and cold.
-- Ajay Naidu

#Loneliness #Europe #Sky

Loneliness is everything it's cracked up to be.
-- Alan Alda

#Loneliness

Being a good host offsets the deprivation and loneliness of my youth
-- Alan Ladd

#Loneliness #Youth #Host

It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.
-- Albert Einstein

#Inspirational #Lonely #Loneliness

We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.
-- Albert Schweitzer

#Sad #Lonely #Loneliness

In the past I have never thought about loneliness when working, and I don't think about it now. Yet there must be a reason for the fact that so many people talk about it.
-- Alberto Giacometti

#Loneliness #Past #Thinking

If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.
-- Aldous Huxley

#Lonely #Loneliness #Different

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
-- Aldous Huxley

#Powerful #Loneliness #Being Alone

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.
-- Alessandro Baricco

#Loneliness #Love You #Boredom

In all of us there is a hunger, marrow-deep, to know our heritage- to know who we are and where we have come from. Without this enriching knowledge, there is a hollow yearning. No matter what our attainments in life, there is still a vacuum, an emptiness, and the most disquieting loneliness.
-- Alex Haley

#Loneliness #Adoption #Who We Are

There are some solitary wretches who seem to have left the rest of mankind, only, as Eve left Adam, to meet the devil in private.
-- Alexander Pope

#Loneliness #Devil #Adam

Nothing is quite as bad as being without privacy and lonely at the same time.
-- Alexander Theroux

#Lonely #Loneliness #Privacy

There is no loneliness like that of a failed marriage.
-- Alexander Theroux

#Loneliness #Failed Marriage

When everyone leaves you it's loneliness you feel, when you leave everyone else it's solitude.
-- Alfred Polgar

#Loneliness #Being Alone #Solitude

I am lonesome so regular it's like a job I gotta report to every day.
-- Alice Childress

#Jobs #Loneliness #Lonesome