Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
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.
Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.
No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.
You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.
We have all known the long loneliness, and we have found that the answer is community.
Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.
Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.
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 who make you feel all alone.
You will have bad times, but they will always wake you up to the stuff you weren't paying attention to.
The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.
You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.
The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness.
What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.
Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.
Man's loneliness is but his fear of life.
God, but life is loneliness, despite all the opiates, despite the shrill tinsel gaiety of "parties" with no purpose, despite the false grinning faces we all wear. And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter - they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from being kept in the small cramped dark inside you so long. Yes, there is joy, fulfillment and companionship - but the loneliness of the soul in its appalling self-consciousness is horrible and overpowering.
It is a very lonely life that a man leads, who becomes aware of truths before their times.
Law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.
Lonely people, in talking to each other can make each other lonelier.
But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.
Please, don't worry so much. Because in the end, none of us have very long on this Earth. Life is fleeting.
Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience.
When I get lonely these days, I think: So BE lonely, Liz. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience. But never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilled yearnings.
The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.
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