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

Loneliness is equal to the radius of one’s awareness.

There’s a pervading sense of loneliness I’ve had since the day I was born. Maybe a lot of other people feel the same way, but I’m not about to run up and down the street asking everybody if they’re as lonely as I am. I’d probably get locked up

The loneliness of the man is slowly being borne in upon me. There is not a man aboard but hates or fears him, nor is there a man whom he does not despise.

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.

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

If you ever had that feeling of loneliness, of being an outsider, it never quite leaves you. You can be happy or successful or whatever, but that thing still stays within you.

I think the thing is that you’re very affected by your early life, and I think that if you ever had that feeling of outsider, or loneliness or whatever, it just doesn’t leave you. You can be happy and successful, whatever, but I think that thing stays inside of you. It doesn’t ever really leave you. You kind of always will have that.

I shall lead you through the loneliness, the solitude you will not understand; but it is my shortcut to your soul.

Believe to the end, even if all men went astray and you were left the only one faithful; bring your offering even then and praise God in your loneliness.

I am loved by thousands, but I feel like the loneliest man in the world

I don’t like being alone.

The opposite of Loneliness is not Togetherness, It’s Intimacy.

A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.

Too much self-centered attitude, you see, brings, you see, isolation. Result: loneliness, fear, anger. The extreme self-centered attitude is the source of suffering.

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

There is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock

It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. It is easier to give a cup of rice to relieve hunger than to relieve the loneliness and pain of someone unloved in our own home. Bring love into your home for this is where our love for each other must start.

The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.

Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.

Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.

He felt as though he were wandering in the forests of the sea bottom, lost in a monstrous world where he himself was the monster. He was alone. The past was dead, the future was unimaginable.

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.

Loneliness is only an opportunity to cut adrift and find yourself. In solitude you are least alone. Make good use of it.

Heal with loneliness, heartaches and teardrops

She did not know the nature of her loneliness. The only words that named it were: This is not the world I expected.

When the chips are down, you are alone, and loneliness can be terrifying. Fortunately, I’ve always had a chum I could call. And I love to be alone. It doesn’t bother me one bit. I’m my own company.

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

If you are afraid of loneliness, don’t marry.

Deep down, the young are lonelier than the old.

Listen to the one who has not been wounded, the one who says, ‘It is not good that man should be alone.’ Recall your longing to the loneliness where it was born, so that when she appears, she will stand before you, not against you. Refine your longing here, in the small silver music of her preparations, under the low-built shelter of repentance.

My father’s love was always strong / My mother’s glamour lives on and on / Yet still inside, I felt alone / For reasons unknown to me.

Most of the time I do feel like I need someone else when I’m alone. But I can still get by with just my own company and that makes me a stronger person.

I get a friend to travel with me… I need somebody to bring me back to who I am. It’s hard to be alone.

When I look at my life and its secret colours, I feel like bursting into tear

I was very depressed when I was 19… I would go back to my apartment every day and I would just sit there. It was quiet and it was lonely. It was still. It was just my piano and myself. I had a television and I would leave it on all the time just to feel like somebody was hanging out with me.