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Loneliness20 quotes
The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted, uncared for and deserted by everybody. — Mother Teresa · 1971Hear that lonesome whippoorwill?
He sounds too blue to fly.
The midnight train is whinin' low,
I'm so lonesome I could cry. — Hank Williams · 1949Who knows what true loneliness is—not the conventional word, but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion. Now and then a fatal conjunction of events may lift the veil for an instant. For an instant only. No human being could bear a steady view of moral solitude without going mad. — Joseph Conrad · 1911Under certain circumstances, one nowhere feels as lonely and lost as in the metropolitan crowd. — Georg Simmel · 1903Alone, alone, all, all alone,
Alone on a wide wide sea! — Samuel Taylor Coleridge · 1798All the lonely people,
Where do they all come from?
All the lonely people,
Where do they all belong? — The Beatles · 1966All 20 quotes →Isolation4 quotes
The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted, uncared for and deserted by everybody. — Mother Teresa · 1971Alone, alone, all, all alone,
Alone on a wide wide sea! — Samuel Taylor Coleridge · 1798Why do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness? — Haruki Murakami · 1999Some people feel like they don't deserve love. They walk away quietly into empty spaces, trying to close the gaps of the past. — Chris McCandless · 2007Solitude3 quotes
Alone, alone, all, all alone,
Alone on a wide wide sea! — Samuel Taylor Coleridge · 1798Solitude is different from loneliness, and it doesn't have to be a lonely kind of thing. — Fred Rogers · 2003In solitude
What happiness? who can enjoy alone,
Or all enjoying, what contentment find? — John Milton · 1667The human condition2 quotes
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. — Lord Byron · 1818Why do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness? — Haruki Murakami · 1999Aging1 quote
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. — Lord Byron · 1818Bird songs1 quote
Hear that lonesome whippoorwill?
He sounds too blue to fly.
The midnight train is whinin' low,
I'm so lonesome I could cry. — Hank Williams · 1949Birds1 quote
Hear that lonesome whippoorwill?
He sounds too blue to fly.
The midnight train is whinin' low,
I'm so lonesome I could cry. — Hank Williams · 1949Broken heart1 quote
Only the lonely (know the way I feel). — Roy Orbison · 1960Connecting with others1 quote
If you think about it, your favorite memories, the most important moments in your life, were you alone?... Life's better with company. — Ryan Bingham · 2009Enemies1 quote
I wish my deadly foe, no worse
Than want of friends, and empty purse. — Nicholas Breton · 1577Exile1 quote
Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family-but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything. — Willa Cather · 1931Existential solitude1 quote
Who knows what true loneliness is—not the conventional word, but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion. Now and then a fatal conjunction of events may lift the veil for an instant. For an instant only. No human being could bear a steady view of moral solitude without going mad. — Joseph Conrad · 1911Friends1 quote
Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family-but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything. — Willa Cather · 1931Friendship1 quote
Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family-but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything. — Willa Cather · 1931Holding to one's principles1 quote
Be good and you will be lonesome. — Mark Twain · 1897Losing a loved one1 quote
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. — Lord Byron · 1818Moral principles1 quote
Be good and you will be lonesome. — Mark Twain · 1897Morality1 quote
Be good and you will be lonesome. — Mark Twain · 1897Ocean and sea1 quote
Alone, alone, all, all alone,
Alone on a wide wide sea! — Samuel Taylor Coleridge · 1798Poverty1 quote
I wish my deadly foe, no worse
Than want of friends, and empty purse. — Nicholas Breton · 1577Value of friendship1 quote
Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family-but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything. — Willa Cather · 1931Vastness of the ocean1 quote
Alone, alone, all, all alone,
Alone on a wide wide sea! — Samuel Taylor Coleridge · 1798