(180 quotes found)
“What a commentary on civilization, when being alone is being suspect; when one has to apologize for it, make excuses, hide the fact that one practices it - like a secret vice”
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
“The principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television. What happens is that the family 'gets together' alone.”
Ashley Montagu
“So there are no more words and all is ended The timbrel is stilled, the clarion laid away And love with streaming hair goes unattended Back to the loneliness of yesterday”
Joseph Auslander
“Every second spent away from those you love, is like watching the world through a slate of sound proof glass.”
Veronica Blankenbaker
“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.”
Kurt Vonnegut
“Every loneliness was given a dream to join!”
Mariana Fulger
“We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.”
Maya Angelou
“Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.”
St. Jerome
“When love takes you home and says you belong here/The loneliness ends and a new life begins/When love takes you in.”
Steven Curtis Chapman
“She was probably suffering loneliness due to the physical separation in the last months. The lady that is believed to be my girlfriend is nothing else but my landlord.”
Arturo Morales