I Am Lonely Quotes - Page 2

• Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

  Vicki Baum

  Lonely, Loneliness, Being Alone

  Vicki Baum (2016). “Grand Hotel”, p.119, New York Review of Books

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• If I admire my arms, my face,
  my shoulders, flanks, buttocks
  against the yellow drawn shades,--
  
  Who shall say I am not
  the happy genius of my household?

  William Carlos Williams

  Happiness, Self, Yellow

  William Carlos Williams (1991). “The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams”, p.87, New Directions Publishing

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• We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Lonely, Loneliness, Being Alone

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.88, Cosimo, Inc.

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• There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.

  Dante Alighieri

  Inspirational, Happiness, Sad

  Dante Alighieri, Stanley Lombardo (2009). “Inferno”, p.26, Hackett Publishing

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• I’m here. I love you. I don’t care if you need to stay up crying all night long, I will stay with you... There’s nothing you can ever do to lose my love. I will protect you until you die, and after your death I will still protect you. I am stronger than Depression and I am braver than Loneliness and nothing will ever exhaust me.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Love, Romantic, Depression

  "Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia". Book by Elizabeth Gilbert, February 16, 2006.

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• I'm not alone, but I am lonely without you.

  Mary Martin

  Valentines Day, Long Distance Relationship, Lonely

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• If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Lonely

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• All great and precious things are lonely.

  John Steinbeck

  Lonely, Loneliness, Being Alone

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.458, Penguin

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• I've also seen that great men are often lonely. This is understandable, because they have built such high standards for themselves that they often feel alone. But that same loneliness is part of their ability to create.

  Yousuf Karsh

  Lonely, Loneliness, Being Alone

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• The worst thing about loneliness is that it brings one face to face with oneself.

  Mary Balogh

  Lonely, Loneliness, Faces

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• Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely.

  Erma Bombeck

  Inspirational, Dream, Lonely

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• 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

  Lonely, Loneliness, Being Alone

  Interview with Angelina Jolie, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 27, 2010.

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• Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.

  May Sarton

  Lonely, Loneliness, Being Alone

  May Sarton (2014). “Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing: A Novel”, p.92, Open Road Media

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  Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but I feel more lonely in a crowed room with boring people than I feel on my own.

  Henry Rollins

  Lonely, Being Alone, People

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• There is none more lonely than the man who loves only himself.

  Abraham ibn Ezra

  Lonely, Loneliness, Being Alone

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• Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate.

  Germaine Greer

  Wisdom, Lonely, Loneliness

  Germaine Greer (1972). “The female eunuch”

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• The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness.

  Norman Cousins

  Missing You, Heartbroken, Lonely

  Norman Cousins (1974). “The celebration of life: a dialogue on immortality and infinity”, Harper San Francisco

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• Loneliness is the universal problem of rich people.

  Joan Collins

  Lonely, Loneliness, Being Alone

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• The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Life, Lonely, Loneliness

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• 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

  Lonely, Memories, Loneliness

  Joseph Conrad (2016). “Under Western Eyes”, p.39, Joseph Conrad

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• A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Lonely, Travel, Loneliness

  "Charlie Chaplin's Los Angeles: a black and white odyssey" by Kira Cochrane, www.theguardian.com. December 8, 2013.

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• We are born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Everything in-between is a gift.

  Yul Brynner

  Love, Life, Death

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• The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside

  Anne Frank

  Lonely, Nature, Loneliness

  Anne Frank, General Press (2016). “The Diary of a Young Girl”, p.107, GENERAL PRESS

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  Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Music, Lonely

  Twitter post from Oct 02, 2015

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• The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.

  Anne Frank

  Happiness, God, Lonely

  Anne Frank (1954). “The Diary of Anne Frank”, Pan

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