Loneliness And Quotations About It

"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

"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." Joseph Conrad

"We're all lonely for something we don't know we're lonely for. How else to explain the curious feeling that goes around feeling like missing somebody we've never even met?" David Foster Wallace

"Here I sit between my brother the mountain and my sister the sea. We three are one in loneliness, and the love that binds us together is deep and strong and strange." Kahlil Gibran

"The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness." Edward Gibbon

"Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate." Germaine Greer

"Loneliness the clearest of crystal insight into your own soul, it's the fear of one's own self that haunts the lonely." Keith Haynie

"People drain me, even the closest of friends, and I find loneliness to be the best state in the union to live in." Margaret Cho

"Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for." Dag Hammarskjold

"Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the spaces between the notes and curl my back to loneliness." Maya Angelou

"To transform the emptiness of loneliness, to the fullness of aloneness. Ah, that is the secret of life." Sunita Khosla

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

"When everyone leaves you it's loneliness you feel, when you leave everyone else its solitude." Alfred Polgar

"Skillful listening is the best remedy for loneliness, loquaciousness, and laryngitis." William Arthur Ward

"The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married." Cyril Connolly

"Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty." Mother Teresa

"It is loneliness that makes the loudest noise. This is true of men as of dogs." Eric Hoffer

"Lonely people, in talking to each other can make each other lonelier." Lillian Hellman
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If you are lonely when you are alone, you are in bad company." Jean-Paul Sartre

"Loneliness is the first thing which God's eye named, not good." John Milton

"Being human is the most terrible loneliness in the universe." A.A. Attanasio

"If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right." Jules Renard

"Loneliness is the universal problem of rich people." Joan Collins

"What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?" T.S. Eliot

"Better be alone than in bad company." Thomas Fuller

The feelings associated with loneliness feed on themselves - the lonelier you feel, the harder it is to take steps to break out of loneliness. However, feeling lonely is a phase and does not have to be a constant way of being. People mitigate loneliness by interacting with others via distance contact, such as via phone or internet. It is harder to share emotions in such a way.

You can develop new habits that build up your inner self. As you become a stronger, more self-assured person, you'll find it easier to make new friends. Meditate on God's Word -The Bible - it will ease the effects of stress on your life! Establish a schedule for a day, weekend or a week! Loneliness often seems more intense when we have nothing to do. Organize your time and be sure to include some outside activities! Take walks around your neighborhood, a local park or a shopping mall! You'll feel better physically and emotionally.

Do you stay in your home watching television when you could be at a social function?

Do you fear rejection because you feel inadequate?

Give up to these ideas and face the world! Be happy and don't waste your time!