If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
Conrad Joseph 1857-1924
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.
Cousins Norman 1915-1990
The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness.
Hoffer Eric 1902-1983
The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.
Mitchell S. Weir 1829-1914
The arctic loneliness of age.
O'Neill Eugene 1888-1953
Man's loneliness is but his fear of life.
Sillitoe Alan 1928-
The loneliness of the long-distance runner.
Teresa Mother 1910-1997
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
Tillich Paul 1886-1965
Language has created the word „loneliness" to express the pain of being alone, and the word „solitude" to express the glory of being alone.
Wolfe Thomas 1900-1938
Loneliness is and always has been the central
and inevitable experience of every man.
Brooke Rupert 1887-1915
‘The Dead'
Blow out, you bugles, over the rich Dead!
There's none of these so lonely and poor of old,
But, dying, has made us rarer gifts than gold.
These laid the world away; poured out the red
Sweet wine of youth; gave up the years to be
Of work and joy, and that unhoped serene,
That men call age; and those that would have been,
Their sons, they gave, their immortality.
Coleridge Samuel Taylor 1772-1834
So lonely ´twas that God himself
Scarce seemed there to be.
Garland Judy 1922-1969
If I'm such a legend, then why am I so lonely?
Let me tell you, legends are all very well if
you've got somebody around who loves you.
JOAD C.E.M. 1891-1953
My life is spent in a perpetual alternation between two rhythms, the rhythm of attracting people for fear I may be lonely, and the rhythm of trying to get rid of them because I know that I am bored.
Lennon John and McCartney Paul 1940-1980 and 1942-
„Eleanor Rigby"
Eleanor Rigby picks up the rice in the church where a wedding has been
Lives in a dream.
Waits at the window, wearing the face that she keeps in a jar by the door,
Who is it for?
All the lonely people, where do they all come from?
McLeod Fiona 1855-1905
"The Lonely Hunter"
My heart is a lonely hunter that hunts on a lonely hill.
Morley Christopher 1890-1957
No man is lonely while eating spaghetti - it requires so much attention.
Nietzsche Friedrich 1844-1900
The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.
Patmore Coventry 1823-1896
The Victories of Love
He that but once too nearly hears
The music of forfended spheres
Is thenceforth lonely, and for all
His days as one who treads the Wall
Of China, and, on this hand, sees
Cities and their civilities
And, on the other, lions.
Virgil 70-19 BC
Aeneid
Darkling they went under the lonely night through the shadow and through the empty dwellings and unsubstantial realms of Hades.