Loneliness Quotes

I'm learning to deal with my loneliness because then nobody can muck me around any more.

~ Amanda Eliasch

It would be impossible to estimate how much time and energy we invest in trying to fix, change and deny our emotions - especially the ones that shake us at our very core, like hurt, jealousy, loneliness, shame, rage and grief.

~ Debbie Ford

In their heyday, the Pet Shop Boys were the Interpol of the Eighties, dressing up to sing really weird pop songs about lust and loneliness in the big city. They're low-pro now, not retro-worshipped in the manner of Depeche Mode, New Order, or The Cure, but you can hear the reason why - these guys are too sad.

~ Rob Sheffield

Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man.

~ Thomas Wolfe

Loneliness is, I think, people's biggest fear, whether they are conscious of it or not.

~ Andrew Stanton

If you go deeper and deeper into your own heart, you'll be living in a world with less fear, isolation and loneliness.

~ Sharon Salzberg

Yoga is a way to freedom. By its constant practice, we can free ourselves from fear, anguish and loneliness.

~ Indra Devi

Man's loneliness is but his fear of life.

~ Eugene O'neill

Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.

~ Ferdinand Marcos

Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.

~ Dag Hammarskjöld

What is man without the beasts? For if all the beast were gone, man would die of a great loneliness of the spirit.

~ Chief Seattle

I've also seen that great men are often lonely. This is understandable, because they have built such high standards for themselves that they often feel alone. But that same loneliness is part of their ability to create.

~ Yousuf Karsh

There were times when I had great times with my brothers, pillow fights and things, but I was, used to always cry from loneliness.

~ Michael Jackson

The directing of a picture involves coming out of your individual loneliness and taking a controlling part in putting together a small world. A picture is made. You put a frame around it and move on. And one day you die. That is all there is to it.

~ John Huston

My inspiration are the woman, friendship, and loneliness.

~ Enrique Iglesias

Whether it's music, loss of something, loneliness or friendship - if that emotion is heightened in some way and painted to fit in between the covers of 32 pages, that can become a picture book.

~ Chris Raschka

People talk about games and loneliness - it's a lonely activity. I didn't understand that. 'Gears of War' was the first multiplayer game for me that I enjoyed. But I wasn't sad. I liked being alone. I liked playing games by myself. I had lots of companionship at the house.

~ Tim Schafer

Loneliness is my least favorite thing about life. The thing that I'm most worried about is just being alone without anybody to care for or someone who will care for me.

~ Anne Hathaway

Negative emotions like loneliness, envy, and guilt have an important role to play in a happy life; they're big, flashing signs that something needs to change.

~ Gretchen Rubin

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.

~ Tom Wolfe

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.

~ Lorraine Hansberry

Anger is a manifestation of a deeper issue... and that, for me, is based on insecurity, self-esteem and loneliness.

~ Naomi Campbell

Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone.

~ Paul Tillich

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

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.

~ Joseph Conrad

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.

~ Whitney Houston

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.

~ Paul Tillich

An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.

~ Henry Miller

I like being alone and I think this movie, as much as it is an investigation of connection and people bonding, I also think it's just as much about loneliness.

~ Jason Schwartzman

Moon! Moon! I am prone before you. Pity me, and drench me in loneliness.

~ Amy Lowell

The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account.

~ Alice Walker

On the night of the winter solstice, when the dead get their annual reprieve, they go up to the 24-hour donut shop and wedding chapel to get hitched. Marriage is a good and proper pursuit for dead people. For a while, it relieves the dark, shuddering loneliness of the afterlife.

~ Rachel Swirsky