loneliness quotes

“Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.”

— Mother Teresa

“Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.”

— Woody Allen

“My peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication - it makes them sociable. I, however, cannot force myself to use drugs to cheat on my loneliness - it is all that I have - and when the drugs and alcohol dissipate, will be all that my peers have as well. ”

— Franz Kafka

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

— Maya Angelou

“An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.”

— Henry Miller

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

— Henry Rollins

“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

“In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.”

— John Steinbeck

“There were times when I had great times with my brothers, pillow fights and things, but I was, used to always cry from loneliness.”

— Michael Jackson

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

— Albert Schweitzer

“A life without a lonely place, that is, without a quiet center, becomes destructive.”

— Henri Nouwen

“Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone.”

— Paul Tillich