Loneliness Quotes

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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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  Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Inspirational, Heartbreak

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Love, Beauty, Fall

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• 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

  Love, Life, Depressing

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  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.

  Robin Williams

  Love, Life, Lonely

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• I need someone. I need to hold somebody close. And I need more than this holding. I need someone to understand how I feel at a time like now. And the understanding must be part of the holding.

  Betty Smith

  Being Alone, Understanding, Feelings

  BETTY SMITH (1947). “A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN MAGGIE NOW”

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• We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Sad, Lonely, Being Alone

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• Human beings can withstand a week without water, two weeks without food, many years of homelessness, but not loneliness. It is the worst of all tortures, the worst of all sufferings.

  Paulo Coelho

  Years, Two, Water

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• Loneliness is black coffee and late-night television;
  solitude is herb tea and soft music.

  Pearl Cleage

  Coffee, Being Alone, Night

  Pearl Cleage (1990). “Mad at Miles: a blackwoman's guide to truth”, Cleage Group

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• It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Lonely, Being Alone

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• Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

  Helen Keller

  Best Friend, Friendship, True Friend

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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, Fall

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• Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.

  Aristotle

  Being Alone, Solitude, Loner

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• The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.

  Mark Twain

  Lonely, Self Esteem, Love Yourself

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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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• Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.

  Bertrand Russell

  Love, Life, Wedding

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Marriage and Morals”, p.79, Routledge

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• When Christ said: I was hungry and you fed me, he didn't mean only the hunger for bread and for food; he also meant the hunger to be loved. Jesus himself experienced this loneliness. He came amongst his own and his own received him not, and it hurt him then and it has kept on hurting him. The same hunger, the same loneliness, the same having no one to be accepted by and to be loved and wanted by. Every human being in that case resembles Christ in his loneliness; and that is the hardest part, that's real hunger.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Sad, Hurt

  Teresa (Mother), Roger (frère) (1986). “Meditations on the Way of the Cross”, Burns & Oates

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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, Being Alone, Feeling Alone

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

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• The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Love, Lonely, Inspiration

  "To My Daughters, With Love (To You on Your First Birthday)". Book by Pearl S. Buck, 1967.

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• When we truly realize that we are all alone is when we need others the most.

  Ronald Anthony Cross

  Lonely, Being Alone, Feeling Alone

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• People who lead a lonely existence always have something on their minds that they are eager to talk about.

  Anton Chekhov

  Lonely, Being Alone, People

  Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1988). “A doctor's visit: short stories”, Bantam Classics

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• Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Love, Life, Relationship

  "Markings". Book by Dag Hammarskjold, 1964.

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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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• When everyone leaves you it's loneliness you feel, when you leave everyone else it's solitude.

  Alfred Polgar

  Being Alone, Solitude, Feeling Lonely

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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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