Loneliness Quotes

"Anything that makes you feel the most alone also has the greatest power to connect you."

"The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to."

Carl Sandburg

"Not waving but drowning."

Stevie Smith

"The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved."

Mother Teresa

"Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self."

May Sarton

"Language has created the word 'loneliness' to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word 'solitude' to express the glory of being alone."

Paul Tillich

"The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness."

Norman Cousins

"If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company."

Jean-Paul Sartre

"Loneliness is proof that your innate search for connection is intact."

Martha Beck

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

Henry Rollins

"The greatest disease in the West today is not TB or leprosy; it is being unwanted, unloved, and uncared for."

Mother Teresa

"Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself."

"I have been one acquainted with the night."

Robert Frost

"All great and precious things are lonely."

John Steinbeck

"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."

Kurt Vonnegut

“I don't like being alone.”

“Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself.”

"The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved."

Mother Teresa

"No one feels another's grief, no one understands another's joy."

Franz Schubert

"Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies."

Elizabeth Bowen

“I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend.”

Mary Shelley

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

Paul Tillich

“If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.”

Jean-Paul Sartre

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

Mother Teresa

“Alone, alone, all, all alone, alone on a wide wide sea!”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge