Loneliness Quotes

“I have been one acquainted with the night.”

Robert Frost

“We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.”

“The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.”

“Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.”

Thomas Wolfe

“The most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.”

Kurt Vonnegut

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

Norman Cousins

“A crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.”

Francis Bacon

“Nobody likes being alone that much. I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all.”

Haruki Murakami

“Without friends, the world is but a wilderness.”

Francis Bacon