Loneliness Quotes

Aloneness exaggerates our emotions and sensitivity.

~ Beth Moore

But how much love, oh, Lord, how much love I experienced at times in those dreams of mine, in those “escapes into everything beautiful and sublime.” Even though it was fantastic love, even though it was never directed at anything human, there was still so much love that afterward, in reality, I no longer felt any impulse to direct it: that would have been an unnecessary luxury.

~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Isolation might be more hazardous than splendor.

~ Barbara W. Tuchman

It was lousy in the park. It wasn't too cold, but the sun still wasn't out, and there didn't look like there was anything in the park except dog crap and globs of spit and cigar butts from old men, and the benches all looked like they'd be wet if you sat down on them. It made you depressed, and every once in a while, for no reason, you got goose flesh while you walked. It didn't seem at all like Christmas was coming soon. It didn't seem like anything was coming.

~ J.d. Salinger

When it became clear that nothing of the kind was forthcoming, I took more direct action. I prayed for the city to be cleared of people, for the gift of being alone—a-l-o-n-e: which is the one New York prayer that rarely gets lost or delayed in channels, and in no time at all everything I touched turned to solid loneliness. - De Daumier-Smith's Blue Period (1952)

~ J.d. Salinger

No one understands the lines you are writing, and after 25 years you are the only one that speakes that languge .

~ Adel Abouhana

I was afflicted with a familiar attack of discovering my own loneliness. From time to time I suffer this emotional attack, especially when I am happy, when I have succeeded at something, and on those rare occasions when I am pleased with myself. Immediately, a gentle and soothing sorrow engulfs my entire being.

~ Shahriar Mandanipour

I ask myself everyday what my life is doing to me and I realize I don't have anybody I can talk to.You should have said the Doctor everybody should.

~ Henning Mankell

my heart, sometimes singing in the afternoon, the most haunting song of solitude

~ John J. Geddes

Sometimes I think, What a man gonna do with all this media publicity, Photos in newspapers, photography in and among the industry, references and contacts when he cannot help a friend, when he has no family life, and not Even a dog to welcome him after work hours!

~ Himmilicious

Within perfect walls there is nothing worth protecting. There is, in fact, nothing. And so we exchange privacy for intimacy.

~ Max Barry

What good were special talents when there was no one to share them with?

~ Dave Cullen

The tyranny of an object, he thought. It doesn't know I exist.

~ Philip K. Dick

I wish I could see a cherry blossom or a lotus flower. Where could they be?

~ Susumu Katsumata

He liked the electric darkness and the hot dirty air and the blasts of noise and traffic and the manic barking sirens and the crush of people. It helped a lonely man feel connected and isolated both at the same time.

~ Lee Child

It was a desire, an echo, a sound; she could drape it in color, see it in form, hear it in music, but not in words; no, never in words. She sighed, teased by desires so incoherent, so incommunicable.

~ Virginia Woolf

The kind of society we live in can contribute to loneliness. Mobility and constant change tend to make some individuals feel rootless and disconnected.

~ Billy Graham

I am never lonely when I am praying, for this brings me into companionship with the greatest friend of all—Jesus Christ. He said, “I call you not servants; . . . but . . . friends” [John 15:15 KJV].

~ Billy Graham

There are thousands of lonely people who carry heavy and difficult burdens of grief, anxiety, pain, and disappointment; but the loneliest of all is one whose life is steeped in sin.

~ Billy Graham

God didn’t make Adam and Eve because He was lonely or because He needed someone to love Him in return. God is complete in Himself, He lacks nothing. God’s love compelled Him to create [humanity]. His love was expressed in the creation of the human race.

~ Billy Graham

I have often said that loneliness is the predominant attitude in our culture. A person can be lonely in the midst of a party, he can be lonely in a crowd. Loneliness may be experienced by the rich and famous or the poor and unknown.

~ Billy Graham

With Christ as your Savior and constant Companion, you, although alone, need never be lonely.

~ Billy Graham

I am never lonely when I am reading the Bible. Nothing dissolves loneliness like a session with God’s Word.

~ Billy Graham

I am never lonely when I am sharing [Christ] with others. There is a great exhilaration in talking to others about [Him].

~ Billy Graham

One kind of loneliness is the loneliness of solitude. If you have repented, surrendered, and committed your heart and life to Him, Christ forgives . . . and takes you into His family; He brings you to the hearth, and you feel the warmth of the fire. If you are lonely today, seek Christ and know the fellowship that He brings.

~ Billy Graham

When God became lonelyhe created man,or was itwhen man became lonelyhe created God.

~ Melanie Exler

Life in this village is like that of a louse hanging on to a wrinkle in a loincloth.

~ Susumu Katsumata

Loneliness is no respecter of persons. It invades the palace as well as the hut.

~ Billy Graham

The thing you did to alleviate the loneliness was to take off your clothes and touch someone, even if you didn’t really know the person well.

~ Rick Moody

Life is for the loved, not the lonely. She lamented. Although it's the lonely who try to make the world and its inhabitants less so.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

One is alone when the last one who remembers is gone. I have nephews and nieces and kind friends---but there's no one who knew me as a young girl---non one who belongs to the old days. I've been alone for quite a long time now.

~ Agatha Christie

I just never noticed how little of me existed before. I was a shadow without a person.

~ Michael J. Sullivan

But also . . . I have plenty of people around me to talk to, and no one to be honest with.

~ Helen Oyeyemi

Nos·tal·gia (n):A feeling that lingers long after the taste is gone.

~ Jenim Dibie

I also often ask my guests about what they consider to be their invisible weaknesses and shortcomings. I do this because these are the characteristics that define us no less than our strengths. What we feel sets us apart from other people is often the thing that shapes us as individuals. This may be especially true of writers and actors, many of whom first started to develop their observational skills as a result of being sidelined from typical childhood or adolescent activities because of an infirmity or a feeling of not fitting in. Or so I’ve come to believe from talking to so many writers and actors over the years.

~ Terry Gross

Confronted by too much emptiness, said Adam One, the brain invents. Loneliness creates company as thirst creates water. How many sailors have been wrecked in pursuit of islands that were merely a shimmering?

~ Margaret Atwood

Every once in a while, large cities have narrow streets, silent passageways that allow your footsteps to echo in the stillness of the night, and it seems like everything is going back to the way it was, when there were only a few of us and we all knew each other and greeted each other on the street.

~ Jaume Cabré

Margie Flynn was in my head like a bad cold, blurring everything. It was a new kind of loneliness, a hurt I couldn’t stop picking at.

~ Chris Fuhrman

In America the vast spaces accentuate the vast spaces between people, deserts which stretch between human beings. It is a void which has to be spanned by the automobile. It takes an hour to reach a movie, two hours to reach a friend. So the coyotes howl and wail at the awful emptiness of mountains, deserts, hills.

~ Anaïs Nin

He was smarter than most, more sensitive. In that regard he was more prepared for the loneliness of senescence than she was. He'd been a stranger in the world for most of his life.

~ Matthew Thomas