Inspirations

No one ever discovers the depths of his own loneliness.

- Georges Bernanos

All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.

- Jean De La Bruy�re

Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man.

- Thomas Carlyle

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. Now and then a fatal conjunction of events may lift the veil for an instant. For an instant only. No human being could bear a steady view of moral solitude without going mad.

- Joseph Conrad

The eternal quest of the human being is to shatter his loneliness.

- Norman Cousins

You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.

- Wayne Dyer

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

- Albert Einstein

Columbus discovered no isle or key so lonely as himself.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is none more lonely than the man who loves only himself.

- Abraham I Esra

In cities no one is quiet but many are lonely, in the country, people are quiet but few are lonely.

- Geoffrey F Fisher

At the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep and powerful yearning for union with one's lost self.

- Brendan Francis

One aged man, one man, can't fill a house.

- Robert Frost

We enter the world alone, we leave the world alone.

- James A Froude

I was never less alone than when by myself.

- Edward Gibbon

Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate.

- Germaine Greer

What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this, I have only my own burden to bear.

- Dag Hammarskjold

It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people, and then I go home alone.

- Janis Joplin

We are never the same with others as when we are alone. We are different, even when we are in the dark with them.

- Maurice Maeterlinck

It's a terrible thing to be alone, yes it is, it is, but don't lower your mask until you have another mask prepared beneath, as terrible as you like, but a mask.

- Katherine Mansfield

To most people loneliness is a doom. Yet loneliness is the very thing which God has chosen to be one of the schools of training for His very own. It is the fire that sheds the dross and reveals the gold.

- Bernard M Martin

All men are lonely. But sometimes it seems to me that we Americans are the loneliest of all. Our hunger for foreign places and new ways has been with us almost like a national disease. Our literature is stamped with a quality of longing and unrest, and our writers have been great wanderers.

- Carson Mccullers

In our extreme youth, in our most humiliating sorrow, we think we are alone. When we are older we find that others have suffered too.

- Suzanne Moarny

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

People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.

- Joseph Fort Newton

Man's loneliness is but his fear of life.

- Eugene O'Neill

A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man, the one he used to be.

- Cesare Pavese

Strife is better than loneliness.

- Irish Proverb

Loneliness breaks the spirit.

- Jewish Proverb

If you are lonely when you are alone, you are in bad company.

- Jean-Paul Sartre

To live alone is the fate of all great souls.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone.

- Sir Walter Scott

Of my friends I am the only one left.

- Terence

Language has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone, and the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.

- Paul Tillich

We're all in this alone.

- Lily Tomlin

When people are lonely they stoop to any companionship.

- Lew Wallace

I celebrate myself, and sing myself.

- Walt Whitman

We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.

- Tennessee Williams

When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.