Loneliness Quotes

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.

Kurt Vonnegut

Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.

Dag Hammarskjold

Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.

Bertrand Russell

Some nights are made for torture, or reflection, or the savoring of loneliness.

Poppy Z. Brite

The surest cure for vanity is loneliness.

Thomas Wolfe

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

Vicki Baum

Language... has created the word 'loneliness' to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word 'solitude' to express the glory of being alone.

Paul Tillich

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

Tom Cochrane

Memory breeds in me strange loneliness.

William Herbert Carruth

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

T.S. Eliot

Skillful listening is the best remedy for loneliness, loquaciousness, and laryngitis.

William Arthur Ward

Loneliness the clearest of crystal insight into your own soul, its the fear of one's own self that haunts the lonely.

Keith Haynie

It is loneliness that makes the loudest noise. This is true of men as of dogs.

Eric Hoffer

You left, and my heart is a ceaseless sermon of loneliness.

Jaesse Tyler

Let the resurrection joy lift us from loneliness and weakness and despair to strength and beauty and happiness.

Floyd W. Tomkins