Loneliness Quotes

Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate.

Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

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.

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.

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.

People drain me, even the closest of friends, and I find loneliness to be the best state in the union to live in.

Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.

Hostility comes from loneliness, from not seeing yourself like a drop falling into the ocean of humanity like everyone else.

Being a good host offsets the deprivation and loneliness of my youth.

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

Hostility comes from loneliness, from not seeing yourself like a drop falling into the ocean of humanity like everyone else.

What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.

I think I'd like to be able to heal people's pain, whether it is hunger, loneliness or whatever.

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

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.

It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.

Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not.

Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Everybody has something that chews them up and, for me, that thing was always loneliness. The cinema has the power to make you not feel lonely, even when you are.

Reading - the best state yet to keep absolute loneliness at bay.

But I also think all of the great stories in literature deal with loneliness. Sometimes it's by way of heartbreak, sometimes it's by way of injustice, sometimes it's by way of fate. There's an infinite number of ways to examine it.

We have all known the long loneliness, and we have found that the answer is community.

The essence of Richard Nixon is loneliness.

Nothing makes us more vulnerable than loneliness, except greed.

Man's loneliness is but his fear of life.

The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness.

Loneliness comes with life.

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.

In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.

The principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television. What happens is that the family 'gets together' alone.