(180 quotes found)
“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.”
Bertrand Russell
“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.”
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
“The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness.”
Norman Cousins
“Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate”
Germaine Greer
“Reading - the best state yet to keep absolute loneliness at bay.”
William Styron
“It's getting to the point where I am no fun anymore, I am sorry. / Sometimes it hurts so badly I must cry out loud, ' I am lonely.' / I am yours, you are mine, you are what you are, you make it hard.”
David Crosby
“Loneliness is the ultimate poverty”
Abigail Van Buren
“People drain me, even the closest of friends, and I find loneliness to be the best state in the union to live in.”
Margaret Cho
“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.”
Joseph Conrad
“Language... 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.”
Paul Tillich
