Separate we come, and separate we go, And this be it known, is all that we know.

The concept of loneliness and exile and self-sufficiency continually bucks me up.

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

Gatherings and, simultaneously, loneliness are the conditions of a writer's life.

Even to loneliness there is an end, for those who are lonely enough, long enough.

If I've helped fuel the debate on loneliness in some small way, that is wonderful.

My loneliness turned itself inside out and I grew myself a kind of perverse pride.

And God stands winding His lonely horn, And time and the world are ever in flight.

He liked the loneliness of inner space, the sense of being forgotten by the world.

The individual has always to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe.

I am a lover without a lover. I am lovely and lonely and I belong deeply to myself.

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Loneliness, insomnia, and change: the fear of these is even worse than the reality.

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

The loneliness of another can be shocking when it lays itself bare without warning.

How tired God must be of guilt and loneliness, for that is all we ever bring to Him.

Well, being the youngest child and frail, I was left alone a great deal of the time.

One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul, and yet no one ever comes to sit by it.

People who can't be alone have a problem. Loneliness is a luxury for people like me.

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

There's definitely a loneliness and, like, an internal element to being a performer.

Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.

Loneliness and the feeling that you're no use to anyone - the worst kind of poverty.

Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

We often refer to loneliness as something negative. And we look at it as a weakness.

Walking by yourself in the rain is for college kids who think loneliness makes poets.

Forget sex or politics or religion, loneliness is the subject that clears out a room.

My journey to working on loneliness was certainly not an expected one or planned one.

Skillful listening is the best remedy for loneliness, loquaciousness, and laryngitis.

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

Solitude is the great teacher, and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it.

In loneliness, the lonely one eats himself; in a crowd, the many eat him. Now choose.

Loneliness is not cured by human company. Loneliness is cured by contact with reality.

The laughter of the world is merely loneliness pathetically trying to reassure itself.

I'm supposed to be, I am an artist. Yes, I'm lonely. But I'm married to my loneliness.

I owe everything that I have done to the fact that I am very much at ease being alone.

The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!

Here in a little lonely room I am master of earth and sea, And the planets come to me.

We have all known the long loneliness, and we have found that the answer is community.

The interesting thing is why we're so desperate for this anesthetic against loneliness.

When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives.

The loneliness you feel with another person, the wrong person, is the loneliest of all.

I've decided that the worst part of loneliness isn't being alone. It's being forgotten.

While loneliness has the potential to kill, connection has even more potential to heal.

Loneliness is, I think, people's biggest fear, whether they are conscious of it or not.

Each of us is now electronically connected to the globe, and yet we feel utterly alone.

The only answer in this life, to the loneliness we are all bound to feel, is community.

Those reflective moments for me usually come from loneliness and separation from people.

No one complains of being a prisoner of love who has ever been a prisoner of loneliness.

To the resentment that hides inside love, to the loneliness that hides among companions.

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