Life is loneliness, broken only by the gods taunting us with friendship and the odd bonk

Loneliness is caused by an alienation from life. It is a loneliness from your real self.

An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.

I'm learning to deal with my loneliness because then nobody can muck me around any more.

This world that I live in is empty and cold/the loneliness cuts me and tortures my soul.

Solitude is different from loneliness, and it doesn't have to be a lonely kind of thing.

Lonely. I always thought loneliness meant alone, without people. It means something else.

I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.

My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues.

Memories and loneliness look backward, fear looks around, but faith always looks forward.

When it comes to pain, love, joy, loneliness, and fear, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy.

Solitude well practiced will break the power of busyness, haste, isolation, & loneliness.

I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think that they will sing to me.

At the simplicity of the gesture, he felt a pang: the raw nerve of his loneliness exposed.

I better be honest about my feelings, even those involving loneliness, jealousy, and fear.

Freedom' is the most expensive possession there is; it has to be paid for with loneliness.

Once in a while, people enter our lives and lessen the loneliness of being away from Home.

But there are other words for privacy and independence. They are isolation and loneliness.

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

It is a very lonely life that a man leads, who becomes aware of truths before their times.

When loneliness comes stalking, go into the fields, consider the orderliness of the world.

Physical distance between people has nothing to do with loneliness. It's psychic distance.

Fiction is one of the few experiences where loneliness can be both confronted and relieved.

Loneliness is like starvation: you don't realize how hungry you are until you begin to eat.

Every time I stepped into madness of the crowds, I longed for the wisdom of the loneliness.

Loneliness in a crowd of people was the worst kind of loneliness, but she couldn't help it.

Spells of acute loneliness are an essential part of travel. Loneliness makes things happen.

Sometimes, the loneliness probably got to be too much and anyone seemed better than no one.

I felt the death loneliness that comes at the end of every day that is wasted in your life.

Directing is all tied up with childhood loneliness. It's such an odd thing to end up doing.

[A cat] will make itself the companion of your hours of work, of loneliness, or of sadness.

To a heart formed for friendship and affection the charms of solitude are very short-lived.

She was overstrained with grief and loneliness: almost any shoulder would have done as well.

Loneliness is more likely to lead to fussy housekeeping than to grand views of the Universe.

Poverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness.

The loneliness of writing is that you baffle your friends and change the lives of strangers.

You got your glory and you paid for it all, you take your pension in loneliness and alcohol.

Mandarin ducks mate for life and will die of loneliness if separated from their chosen mate.

Alone is a fact, a condition where no one else is around. Lonely is how you feel about that.

Some feelings sink so deep into the heart that only loneliness can help you find them again.

Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone.

she was consumed by 3 simple things: drink, despair, loneliness; and 2 more: youth and beauty

What's worse - loneliness or a relationship that inevitably leads to costly therapy sessions?

We are all born alone and die alone. The loneliness is definitely part of the journey of life.

SO the richest are often the poorest as this saying goes, "Loneliness is the ultimate poverty"

For too many women pregnancy is just the start of loneliness and abuse. It is a cruel reality.

Where a people prays, there is the church; and where the church is; there is never loneliness.

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

in darkness and in hedges I sang my sour tone and all my love was howling conspicuously alone.

Loneliness is always there, it's a phase that comes and goes and it is a very difficult phase.

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