Loneliness Quotes

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.

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

Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

A man in a bookstore buys a book on loneliness and every woman in the store hits on him. A woman buys a book on loneliness and the store clears out.

If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

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

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

I also wanted to express the strength of cinema to hide reality, while being entertaining. Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness.

Oh, this absolute loneliness and the game - loving to play the game, loving to go and tell stories to men that certainly weren't true, just for the sport of it, just to see how they would react.

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

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

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.

Yet it is in this loneliness that the deepest activities begin. It is here that you discover act without motion, labor that is profound repose, vision in obscurity, and, beyond all desire, a fulfillment whose limits extend to infinity.

At the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep and powerful yearning for union with one's lost self.

I really love baseball. The guys and the game, and I love the challenge of describing things. The only thing I hate - and I know you have to be realistic and pay the bills in this life - is the loneliness on the road.

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.

I sought my father in the world of the black musician, because it contained wisdom, experience, sadness and loneliness. I was not ever interested in the music of boys. From my youngest years, I was interested in the music of men.

The dominant feeling of the battlefield is loneliness.

There's a difference between solitude and loneliness.

I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.

My inspiration are the woman, friendship, and loneliness.

No one ever discovers the depths of his own loneliness.

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

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

You write a story about loneliness, and you grab them all because everybody's an expert on that one.

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

The surest cure for vanity is loneliness.

The older generation had greater respect for land than science. But we live in an age when science, more than soil, has become the provider of growth and abundance. Living just on the land creates loneliness in an age of globality.

Loneliness seems to have become the great American disease.