Loneliness Quotes
2008 December 8
by Nabil Medawar
- Be good and you will be lonely. ~ Mark Twain
- Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole. ~ Vicki Baum
- I was never less alone than when by myself. ~ Edward Gibbon
- If you are afraid of loneliness, don’t marry. ~ Anton Chekhov
- In a choice between bad company and loneliness — the second is preferable. ~ Spanish Proverb
- It is loneliness that makes the loudest noise. This is as true of men as of dogs. ~ Eric Hoffer
- 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
- 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. ~ Ferdinand E.Marcos
- Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty. ~ Mother Teresa
- Loneliness breaks the spirit. ~ Jewish Proverb
- Loneliness is a nest for the thoughts. ~ Kurdish Proverb
- Loneliness is a terrible blindness. ~ Christina Stead
- Loneliness is the most terrible poverty. ~ Mother Teresa
- Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self. ~ May Sarton
- Man’s loneliness is but his fear of life. ~ Eugene P’neill
- Music was invented to confirm human loneliness. ~ Lawrence Durrell
- No one ever discovers the depths of his own loneliness. ~ Georges Bernanos
- One cat in a house is a sign of loneliness, two of barrenness, and three of sodomy. ~ Edward Dahlberg
- People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges. ~ Joseph Fort Newton
- Solitude is one thing and loneliness is another. ~ May Sarton
- Strife is better than loneliness. ~ Irish Proverb
- The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married. ~ Cyril Connolly
- The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness. ~ Eric Hoffer
- The eternal quest of the human being is to shatter his loneliness. ~ Norman Cousins
- The penalty of leadership is loneliness. ~ Wheeler H. Robinson
- The surest cure for loneliness, the quickest way to happiness, is found in this, a simple creed: Go serve someone in greater need. ~ William A. Ward
- The surest cure for vanity is loneliness. ~ Thomas Wolfe
- The surest sign of age is loneliness. ~ Amos Bronson Alcott
- The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself. ~ Mark Twain
- There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house. ~ Eric Hoffer
- There is none more lonely than the man who loves only himself. ~ Abraham Ibn Esra
- We enter the world alone, we leave the world alone. ~ James A. Froude
- You cannot be lonely if you like the person you’re alone with. ~ Wayne Dyer
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