Lonelyness quotes - Being alone

Tragedy, sadness, loneliness and despair

taught me that life is really a beautiful thing;

if it wasn’t I wouldn’t be able to

recognize that anything was wrong.

Greg Evans

To transform the emptiness of loneliness,

to the fullness of aloneness.

Ah, that is the secret of life.

Sunita Khosla

And I look again towards the sky

as the raindrops mix with the tears I cry.

Behold, I am with you always,

even to the end of the age.

The Bible

Better be alone than in bad company.

Thomas Fuller

Do not think of a painful experience

as a dark time in your life. You emerge out

of everything learning something

or becoming a better person. 

You realize who your real friends are

and how much your loved ones mean to you.

Colleen Ho

Here I sit between my brother the mountain

and my sister the sea.

We three are one in loneliness,

and the love that binds us together

is deep and strong and strange.

Kahlil Gibran

I celebrate myself,

and sing myself.

Walt Whitman

I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

Henry David Thoreau

I wandered lonely as a cloud 

That floats on high o’er vales and hills, 

When all at once I saw a crowd … 

A host, of golden daffodils.

William Wordsworth

I would rather sit on a pumpkin, 

and have it all to myself, 

than be crowded on a velvet cushion.

Henry David Thoreau

If our lives are dedicated to enhancing 

the lives of everyone we come in contact with

 our lives can never lose meaning.

Dr. David Hawkins

If you are afraid of being lonely,

don’t try to be right.

Jules Renard

If you are lonely when you are alone,

you are in bad company.

Jean-Paul Sartre

In solitude the mind gains strength 

and learns to lean upon itself.

Laurence Sterne

In the midst of winter, 

I finally learned that there was

in me an invincible summer.

Albert Camus

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

Loneliness adds beauty to life.

It puts a special burn on sunsets

and makes night air smell better.

Henry Rollins

Loneliness, alienation from life, is a loneliness from your real Self. Those who are alienated from their real Self have cut themselves off from the basic and fundamental contact with life. Because of the feelings of alienation from Self, human contacts are not very satisfying, and they become social recluses. One of the ways they can find themselves is to lose themselves in social activities with other people.

Dr. Maxwell Maltz

Loneliness is not cured by human company.

Loneliness is cured by contact with reality.

Anthony De Mello

Loneliness is the poverty of Self;

Solitude is the richness of Self.

May Sarton

Memories are the treasures that we keep locked deep

within the storehouse of our souls,

to keep our hearts warm when we are lonely.

Becky Aligada

Modern man’s difficulties, dangerous beliefs

and feelings of loneliness, spiritual emptiness,

and personal weakness are caused by

his illusions about, and separation from,

the natural world.

Benjamin Hoff

Music was invented

to confirm human loneliness.

Lawrence Durrell

Music was my refuge.

I could crawl into the spaces between the notes

and curl my back to loneliness.

Maya Angelo

No matter how lonely you get

or how many birth announcements you receive,

the trick is not to get frightened. 

There’s nothing wrong with being alone.

Wendy Wasserstein

One may have a blazing hearth in one’s soul,

and yet no one ever comes to sit by it.

Vincent Van Gogh

Only by going alone in silence, without baggage,

can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness.

All other travel is mere dust and hotels

and baggage and chatter.

John Muir

Only if you’ve been in the deepest valley

can you ever know how magnificent it i

 to be on the highest mountain.

Richard Nixon

People think they know me, but they don`t. 

Not really. Actually, I am one

of the loneliest people on this earth.

I cry sometimes, because it hurts. It does.

To be honest, I guess you could say that it hurts to be me.

Michael Jackson

People who lead a lonely existence

always have something on their minds

that they are eager to talk about.

Anton Checkov

Pray that your loneliness may spur you

into finding something to live for.

Dag Hammarskjold

There is a rapture on the lonely shore ... 

By the deep sea, and music in its roar.

Lord Byron

The soul that sees beauty

 may sometimes walk alone.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The surest cure for vanity

is loneliness.

Thomas Wolfe

The world is round

and the place which may seem like the end

may also be the beginning.

Ivy Baker Priest

The worst loneliness is

not to be comfortable with yourself.

Mark Twain

They are never alone 

that are accompanied with noble thoughts.

Sir Philip Sidney

To be alone is to be different,

to be different is to be alone.

Suzanne Gordon

What lies behind us and what lies before us

are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

William Morrow

When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone; nay, God is within, and your genius is within. And what need have they of light to see what you are doing?

Epictetus