It would be naive to think that the problems plaguing mankind today can be solved with means and methods which were applied or seemed to work in the past.
—Mikhail Gorbachev (1931–2022) Soviet Head of State
The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness.
—Norman Cousins (1912–1990) American Political Journalist
You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.
—Theodor Seuss Geisel (‘Dr. Seuss’) (1904–91) American Children’s Writer, Cartoonist, Animator
Strife is better than loneliness.
—Irish Proverb
All men’s misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.
—Jean de La Bruyere (1645–96) French Satiric Moralist, Author
If you are lonely when you are alone, you are in bad company.
—Jean-Paul Sartre (1905–80) French Philosopher, Playwright, Novelist, Activist
Better be alone than in bad company.
—Thomas Fuller (1608–61) English Cleric, Historian
Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man.
—Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish Historian, Essayist
What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
—George Eliot (Mary Anne Evans) (1819–80) English Novelist
Lonely people, in talking to each other can make each other lonelier.
—Lillian Hellman (1905–84) American Dramatist, Memoirist
If you are afraid of being lonely, don’t try to be right.
—Jules Renard (1864–1910) French Writer, Diarist
You cannot be lonely if you like the person you’re alone with.
—Wayne Dyer (1940–2015) American Self-Help Author
We are most of us very lonely in this world; you who have any who love you, cling to them and thank God.
—Unknown
All alone! Whether you like it or not, alone is something you’ll be quite a lot.
—Theodor Seuss Geisel (‘Dr. Seuss’) (1904–91) American Children’s Writer, Cartoonist, Animator
Loneliness is the most terrible poverty.
—Mother Teresa (1910–97) Roman Catholic Missionary, Nun
It is a rather pleasant experience to be alone in a bank at night.
—Willie Sutton (1901–80) American Bank Robber
One aged man—one man—can’t fill a house.
—Robert Frost (1874–1963) American Poet
Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the spaces between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
—Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American Poet
Skillful listening is the best remedy for loneliness, loquaciousness, and laryngitis.
—William Arthur Ward (1921–94) American Author
We enter the world alone, we leave the world alone.
—James Anthony Froude (1818–94) British Historian, Novelist, Biographer, Editor
Man’s loneliness is but his fear of life.
—Eugene O’Neill (1888–1953) American Playwright
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 (b.1968) American Stand-Up Comedian, Actress, Activist
Loneliness is the universal problem of rich people.
—Joan Collins (b.1933) English Actress
There is none more lonely than the man who loves only himself.
—Abraham ibn Ezra (1089–1167) Spanish Jewish Scholar, Poet
No one ever discovers the depths of his own loneliness.
—Georges Bernanos (1888–1948) French Novelist, Polemicist
It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.
—Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born Physicist
When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone.
—Walter Scott (1771–1832) Scottish Novelist, Poet, Playwright, Lawyer
Loneliness breaks the spirit.
—Yiddish Proverb
A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man—the one he used to be.
—Cesare Pavese (1908–50) Italian Novelist, Poet, Critic, Translator
All men are lonely. But sometimes it seems to me that we Americans are the loneliest of all. Our hunger for foreign places and new ways has been with us almost like a national disease. Our literature is stamped with a quality of longing and unrest, and our writers have been great wanderers.
—Carson McCullers (1917–67) American Novelist
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