(36 quotes found)
“We are rarely proud when we are alone.”
Voltaire
“That is what all poets do: they talk to themselves out loud; and the world overhears them. But it's horribly lonely not to hear someone else talk sometimes.”
George Bernard Shaw
“Skillful listening is the best remedy for loneliness, loquaciousness, and laryngitis.”
William Arthur Ward
“A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.”
Benjamin Franklin
“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
“Be good and you will be lonesome”
Mark Twain
“Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.”
Woody Allen
“Loneliness breaks the spirit.”
Jewish Proverb
“We walk alone in the world.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Columbus discovered no isle or key so lonely as himself.”
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