Quotes about Loneliness

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Man was born for society. However little He may be attached to the World, He never can wholly forget it, or bear to be w — Matthew Lewis, The Monk
When you are lonely for a while don't get restless, if you had born alone, you are going to die alone then for sometime — Amit Kalantri
Sometimes the sound of silence is the most deafening sound of all. — K.L. Toth
Do not look for company at all costs, and especially do not allow loneliness to lead you to fickle love or false friends — Eraldo Banovac
Lying is easy. But it's lonely.""What do you mean?""When you lie to everyone about everything, what's left? What's true? — Victoria Schwab, The Archived
I don't reckon misery loves any damn thing at all. — Bruce Machart, The Wake of Forgiveness
If it's true what is said, that only the wise discover the wise, then it must also be true that the lone wolf symbolizes — Criss Jami, Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality
People would rather live in a community with unreasonable claims, than face loneliness with their truth — Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
Claiming to love self, but willingly default to cheating at the first sign of trouble is nothing short of playing yourse — T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"
He looked very old. He looked, James thought, getting his head now against the Lighthouse, now against the waste of wate — Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
A lonely day is God's way of saying that he wants to spend some quality time with you. — Criss Jami, Killosophy
The man who fears to be alone will never be anything but lonely, no matter how much he may surround himself with people. — Thomas Merton, No Man Is an Island
The soul hardly ever realizes it, but whether he is a believer or not, his loneliness is really a homesickness for God. — Hubert Van Zeller
Many people seek fellowship because they are afraid to be alone...let him who cannot be alone beware of community. He wi — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
I lay there with my mind running amuck, on the brink of madness. And somehow, gradually, early Sunday morning, I became — John Marsden, A Killing Frost
Why should you want to give up a child's wise not-understanding in exchange for defensiveness and scorn, since not-under — Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
There was an enjoyment to being alive, he felt, that because of an underlying meaninglessness–like how a person alone fo — Tao Lin, Eeeee Eee Eeee
In his or her own way, everyone I saw before me looked happy. Whether they were really happy or just looked it, I couldn — Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
She had known happiness, exquisite happiness, intense happiness, and it silvered the rough waves a little more brightly, — Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
We all need a technological detox; we need to throw away our phones and computers instead of using them as our pseudo-de — Evan Sutter, Solitude: How Doing Nothing Can Change the World