Loneliness Quotes
Loneliness is a longing for companionship. It is often decribed as sadness because one has no friends or company. Loneliness quotes may help with something that is never desired.
Some common synonyms of lonely are alone, desolate, forlorn, lonesome, lone, and solitary.
Loneliness Quotes
- "If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company."
- Jean-Paul Sartre - "Loneliness is my least favorite thing about life. The thing that I’m most worried about is just being alone without anybody to care for or someone who will care for me ."
- Anne Hathaway - "The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely."
- Charlotte Brontë - "When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that's when I think life is over."
- Audrey Hepburn - "Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man."
- Thomas Wolfe - "Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness."
- Maya Angelou - "Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate."
- Germaine Greer - "The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved."
- Mother Teresa - "As I get older I’m more and more comfortable being alone."
- Sienna Miller - "If one's different, one's bound to be lonely."
- Aldous Huxley, Brave New World - "Be a loner. That gives you time to wonder, to search for the truth. Have holy curiosity. Make your life worth living."
- Albert Einstein - "Solitude is fine but you need someone to tell that solitude is fine."
- Honoré de Balzac - "Loneliness is the ultimate poverty."
- Pauline Phillips - All great and precious things are lonely."
- John Steinbeck, East of Eden - "Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying."
- Arthur C. Clarke - "I used to think the worst thing in life was to end up all alone. It’s not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people that make you feel all alone."
- Robin Williams - "How we need another soul to cling to."
- Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath - "If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry."
- Anton Chekhov (Notebook of Anton Chekhov) - "Leave my loneliness unbroken."
- Edgar Allan Poe (The Raven) - "I never really understood the word 'loneliness'. As far as I was concerned, I was in an orgy with the sky and the ocean, and with nature."
- Björk - "I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others--young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby - "People think being alone makes you lonely, but I don’t think that’s true. Being surrounded by the wrong people is the loneliest thing in the world."
- Kim Culbertson - "The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself."
- Mark Twain - "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 - "A season of loneliness and isolation is when the caterpillar gets its wings. Remember that next time you feel alone."
- Mandy Hale - "When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone."
- Tennessee Williams - "Loneliness will sit over our roofs with brooding wings."
- Bram Stoker (Dracula) - "In all our searching, the only thing we've found that makes the emptiness bearable is each other."
- Carl Sagan - "Loneliness is about the scariest thing out there."
- Joss Whedon - "I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills
When all at once I saw a crowd
A host of golden daffodils
Beside the lake beneath the trees
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze."
- William Wordsworth, I Wander'd Lonely as a Cloud
