quotations about loneliness
It is also the pardonable vanity of lonely people everywhere to assume that they have no counterparts.
JOHN LE CARRÉ
The Honourable Schoolboy
The creak of bed springs suffering under the weight of a restless man is as lonely a sound as I know.
PATRICK DEWITT
The Sisters Brothers
A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man -- the one he used to be.
CESARE PAVESE
The Burning Brand: Diaries
Go forth with crowds; in loneliness is danger.
STELLA BENSON
This Is the End
We live in such a lonely world because most days we wake up and decide to marry no one but ourselves.
CHRISTOPHER POINDEXTER
Remington Typewriter Poetry
Lonesome makes friends of strangers.
KEN ALSTAD
Savvy Sayin's
I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think that they will sing to me.
T. S. ELIOT
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Loneliness and Solitude
are brothers, we can see.
But just as other siblings,
they're as different as can be.
While Loneliness may wallow
in self-pity or in pride,
Solitude finds something more
alive down deep inside.
WALTER A. NEWPORT, III
"Loneliness and Solitude", Poems of Petition, Praise, Perception, People, & Playfulness
Every loneliness is a pinnacle.
AYN RAND
The Fountainhead
The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.
THOMAS WOLFE
The Hills Beyond
We're each of us alone, to be sure. What can you do but hold your hand out in the dark?
URSULA K. LE GUIN
The Unreal and the Real: Selected Stories, vol. ii
There are those who worship loneliness, I'm not one of them
In this age of fiberglass I'm searching for a gem
The crystal ball up on the wall hasn't shown me nothing yet
I've paid the price of solitude, but at last I'm out of debt
BOB DYLAN
"Dirge"
Coming home from very lonely places, all of us go a little mad: whether from great personal success, or just an all-night drive, we are the sole survivors of a world no one else has ever seen.
JOHN LE CARRÉ
attributed, Lost & Found
Lost in loneliness and pain.
Black and unendurable,
Thinking of you with every
Corpuscle of my flesh, in
Every instant of night
And day.
KENNETH REXROTH
"Loneliness", The Collected Shorter Poems
Loneliness has followed me my whole life. Everywhere. In bars, cars, sidewalks, stores. Everywhere. There's no escape. I'm God's lonely man.
PAUL SCHRADER
Taxi Driver
The most evident quality of human life is its loneliness.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY
Keystones of Thought
The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.
DOUGLAS COUPLAND
Shampoo Planet
What makes loneliness an anguish
Is not that I have no one to share my burden,
But this:
I have only my own burden to bear.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD
"Night is Drawing Nigh"