(180 quotes found)
“We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.”
Orson Welles
“The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.”
Mother Teresa of Calcutta
“What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?”
T.S. Eliot
“Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.”
Dag Hammarskjold
“Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.”
Maya Angelou
“What if a demon were to creep after you one night, in your loneliest loneliness, and say, 'This life which you live must be lived by you once again and innumerable times more; and every pain and joy and thought and sigh must come again to you, all in the same sequence. The eternal hourglass will again and again be turned and you with it, dust of the dust!' Would you throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse that demon? Or would you answer, 'Never have I heard anything more divine'?”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.”
May Sarton
“Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.”
Henry Rollins
“What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear.”
“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.”
Anna Louise Strong
