Loneliness Quotes

Maybe love was superstition, a prayer we said to keep the truth of loneliness at bay.

I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others – poor young clerks who loitered in front of windows waiting until it was time for a solitary restaurant dinner – young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life.

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.

What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life’s page, and be alone on earth, as I am now.

What is hell? Hell is oneself, hell is alone, the other figures in it merely projections. There is nothing to escape from and nothing to escape to. One is always alone.

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

Then stirs the feeling infinite, so felt in solitude, where we are least alone.

Loneliness will sit over our roofs with brooding wings.

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.[Einsamkeit entsteht nicht dadurch, daß man keine Menschen um sich hat, sondern vielmehr dadurch, daß man ihnen die Dinge, die einem wichtig erscheinen, nicht mitteilen kann, oder daß man Gedanken für gültig ansieht, die den anderen als unwahrscheinlich gelten.]

If a man knows more than others, he becomes lonely.[Wenn ein Mensch mehr weiß als andere, wird er einsam.]

I am alone, and miserable; man will not associate with me; but one as deformed and horrible as myself would not deny herself to me.

For now she need not think about anybody. She could be herself, by herself. And that was what now she often felt the need of – to think; well, not even to think. To be silent; to be alone.