(180 quotes found)
“Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.”
Woody Allen
“Loneliness is the most terrible poverty.”
Mother Teresa of Calcutta
“Skillful listening is the best remedy for loneliness, loquaciousness, and laryngitis.”
William Arthur Ward
“Writing a book is a very lonely business. You are totally cut off from the rest of the world, submerged in your obsessions and memories.”
Mario Vargas Llosa
“When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.”
Hilaire Belloc
“An artist is always alone / if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.”
Henry Miller
“With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only a reflection of themselves.”
Eric Hoffer
“It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.”
Albert Einstein
“I know the dark delight of being strange,/ The penalty of difference in the crowd,/ The loneliness of wisdom among fools . . .”
Claude McKay
“The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.”
Edward Gibbon
