Loneliness Quotes

There is extraordinary similarities between the Midwest in America and Europe in that there is this sense of vast, open sky and loneliness and cold.

Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not.

Man's loneliness is but his fear of life.

Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.

A lot of women are afraid of loneliness, so when they see a woman who can live alone, then they think, 'Hmm, I can do that.' But you need an example, and that is why I am proud to say I have divorced three husbands.

If you go deeper and deeper into your own heart, you'll be living in a world with less fear, isolation and loneliness.

Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.

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

In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.

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

There is no loneliness like that of a failed marriage.

Hollywood is loneliness beside the swimming pool.

What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.

The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account.

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

Loneliness and hunger were my fortunes of creation.

My music is very personal. I've created it in solitude. I face a white wall and beller. I like that sound - the expression of loneliness. That's what it's all about.

I also wanted to express the strength of cinema to hide reality, while being entertaining. Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness.

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.

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

Oh, this absolute loneliness and the game - loving to play the game, loving to go and tell stories to men that certainly weren't true, just for the sport of it, just to see how they would react.

Loneliness is proof that your innate search for connection is intact.

When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

Writing is an antidote for loneliness.

No one ever discovers the depths of his own loneliness.

But the West of the old times, with its strong characters, its stern battles and its tremendous stretches of loneliness, can never be blotted from my mind.

A blank wall of social and professional antagonism faces the woman physician that forms a situation of singular and painful loneliness, leaving her without support, respect or professional counsel.

I said it's a cold universe and I don't mean that metaphorically. If you go out into space, it's cold. It's really cold and we don't know what's up there. We happen to be in this little pocket where there's a sun. What have we got except love and each other to guard against all that isolation and loneliness?

I think I'd like to be able to heal people's pain, whether it is hunger, loneliness or whatever.

People drain me, even the closest of friends, and I find loneliness to be the best state in the union to live in.

I believe a lot of disease comes from anxiety, loneliness.

Loneliness is the universal problem of rich people.

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.

Loneliness seems to have become the great American disease.

A man in a bookstore buys a book on loneliness and every woman in the store hits on him. A woman buys a book on loneliness and the store clears out.

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

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

Yoga is a way to freedom. By its constant practice, we can free ourselves from fear, anguish and loneliness.

The surest sign of age is loneliness.

I had become, with the approach of night, once more aware of loneliness and time - those two companions without whom no journey can yield us anything.

Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Why do I write? It's not that I want people to think I am smart, or even that I am a good writer. I write because I want to end my loneliness.

In the past I have never thought about loneliness when working, and I don't think about it now. Yet there must be a reason for the fact that so many people talk about it.

The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.

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

But the battles against loneliness that I fought when I was 16 are very different from those I fought when I was 27, and those are very different from the ones I fight at 44.

Everybody has something that chews them up and, for me, that thing was always loneliness. The cinema has the power to make you not feel lonely, even when you are.

But I also think all of the great stories in literature deal with loneliness. Sometimes it's by way of heartbreak, sometimes it's by way of injustice, sometimes it's by way of fate. There's an infinite number of ways to examine it.

There's a difference between solitude and loneliness. I can understand the concept of being a monk for a while.

A woman who is willing to be herself and pursue her own potential runs not so much the risk of loneliness, as the challenge of exposure to more interesting men - and people in general.

Online communities are an expression of loneliness.

Everything we do is for the purpose of altering consciousness. We form friendships so that we can feel certain emotions, like love, and avoid others, like loneliness. We eat specific foods to enjoy their fleeting presence on our tongues. We read for the pleasure of thinking another person's thoughts.

Nothing makes us more vulnerable than loneliness, except greed.

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.

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

There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.

Loneliness comes with life.

The directing of a picture involves coming out of your individual loneliness and taking a controlling part in putting together a small world. A picture is made. You put a frame around it and move on. And one day you die. That is all there is to it.

If you write fiction, you're by yourself. There are certain advantages to that in that you don't have to explain anything to anybody. But when you get in with others who share the loneliness of the whole enterprise, you're not lonely anymore.

One of the things reading does, it makes your loneliness manageable if you are an essentially lonely person.

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

Moon! Moon! I am prone before you. Pity me, and drench me in loneliness.

Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.

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

I realize that I live on the bubble of insanity. I feel the weight of human suffering, loneliness and despair on me all the time. It's not getting easier; if anything, it's always right on the edge of my skin.

If there is a look of human eyes that tells of perpetual loneliness, so there is also the familiar look that is the sign of perpetual crowds.

Loneliness is an integral part of travelling. I used to think it was the downside to travelling, but now I realise it is a necessary educative part of it to be embraced.

The principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television. What happens is that the family 'gets together' alone.

My first novel, 'The Tiger's Daughter,' embodies the loneliness I felt but could not acknowledge, even to myself, as I negotiated the no man's land between the country of my past and the continent of my present.

Hostility comes from loneliness, from not seeing yourself like a drop falling into the ocean of humanity like everyone else.

I had to learn compassion. Had to learn what it felt like to hate, and to forgive and to love and be loved. And to lose people close to me. Had to feel deep loneliness and sorrow. And then I could write.

Loneliness is the ultimate poverty.

One of the things that people complain about is loneliness, disconnectedness. If you live in a society where your life is rarely threatened and most of your relationships are more on an economic exchange basis, then this could leave people feeling less connected.

I'm just a believer in keeping all of the creative brain cells moving and working even when you're not working because the inevitable loneliness and boring drought in the actor's world, it can eat you alive.

As far as loneliness, I feel Los Angeles and its layout, having to drive everywhere - it is a lonely place. It's an isolated city in that respect because you're driving to places alone listening to the radio.