Lonely And Alone Quotes

• Loneliness is the first thing which God's eye named not good.

  John Milton

  Lonely, Loneliness, Being Alone

  John Milton (2009). “The Complete Poetry and Essential Prose of John Milton”, p.997, Modern Library

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• Unless we love and are loved, each of us is alone, each of us is deeply lonely.

  Mortimer Adler

  Lonely, Being Alone, Feeling Alone

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• A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Lonely, Men, Thinking

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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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• I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Love, Lonely, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (1995). “Walden, Or, Life in the Woods”, p.88, Courier Corporation

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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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• Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.

  Jodi Picoult

  Inspirational, Life, Lonely

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.156, Simon and Schuster

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• Only the lonely know the way I feel tonight.

  Roy Orbison

  Lonely, Sadness, Being Alone

  Alex Orbison, Roy Orbison, Wesley Orbison (2017). “The Authorized Roy Orbison: The Authorized Biography”, p.643, Hachette UK

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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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• What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

  George Eliot

  Lonely, Loneliness, Being Alone

  George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot Collection: Middlemarch, Adam Bede, Silas Marner, The Lifted Veil, and The Mill on the Floss”, p.935, Xist Publishing

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

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Lonely, Loneliness

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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 have so many different personalities in me and I still feel lonely.

  Tori Amos

  Lonely, Like Being Alone, Personality

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• Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man.

  Thomas Wolfe

  Lonely, Loneliness, Being Alone

  Thomas Wolfe (2016). “You Can't Go Home Again”, p.511, Thomas Wolfe

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• It would do the world good if every man would compel himself occasionally to be absolutely alone. Most of the world s progress has come out of such loneliness.

  Bruce Barton

  Lonely, Loneliness, Being Alone

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• Loneliness is the universal problem of rich people.

  Joan Collins

  Lonely, Loneliness, Being Alone

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• To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Sad, Broken Heart, Lonely

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.211

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• It's getting to the point where I am no fun anymore, I am sorry. / Sometimes it hurts so badly I must cry out loud, ' I am lonely.' / I am yours, you are mine, you are what you are, you make it hard.

  Stephen Stills

  Lonely, Hurt, Sorry

  Song: Suite: Judy Blue Eyes, 2007

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• The surest cure for vanity is loneliness.

  Tom Wolfe

  Lonely, Loneliness, Being Alone

  "The American Mercury", p. 467, "The Anatomy of Loneliness", October 1941.

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• What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be.

  Ellen Burstyn

  Lonely, Loneliness, Being Alone

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• If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right.

  Jules Renard

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

  Ronald Anthony Cross

  Lonely, Loneliness, Being Alone

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• I don't want to be alone, I want to be left alone.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Hilarious, Loneliness, Being Alone

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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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