LONELINESS

People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.
Joseph Fort Newton

Be good and you will be lonely.
Mark Twain

On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.
Janis Joplin

When Christ said: ''I was hungry and you fed me,'' he didn't mean only the hunger for bread and for food; he also meant the hunger to be loved. Jesus himself experienced this loneliness. He came amongst his own and his own received him not, and it hurt him then and it has kept on hurting him. The same hunger, the same loneliness, the same having no one to be accepted by and to be loved and wanted by. Every human being in that case resembles Christ in his loneliness; and that is the hardest part, that's real hunger.
Mother Teresa

It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

There is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a dream, a grotesque and foolish dream. Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought --a vagrant thought, a useless thought, a homeless thought, wandering forlorn among the empty eternities!
Mark Twain

Strife is better than loneliness.
Irish Proverbs

Loneliness breaks the spirit.
Jewish Proverbs

We enter the world alone, we leave the world alone.
James A. Froude

Only in a house where one has learnt to be lonely does one have this solicitude for things. One's relation to them, the daily seeing or touching, begins to become love, and to lay one open to pain.
Elizabeth Bowen

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

What torments my soul is its loneliness. The more it expands among friends and the daily habits or pleasures, the more, it seems to me, it flees me and retires into its fortress. The poet who lives in solitude, but who produces much, is the one who enjoys those treasures we bear in our bosom, but which forsake us when we give ourselves to others. When one yields oneself completely to one's soul, it opens itself to one, and then it is that the capricious thing allows one the greatest of good fortunes... that of sympathizing with others, of studying itself, of painting itself constantly in its works.
EugFne Delacroix

There is none more lonely than the man who loves only himself.
Abraham Ibn Esra

A lonely man is a lonesome thing, a stone, a bone, a stick, a receptacle for Gilbey's gin, a stooped figure sitting at the edge of a hotel bed, heaving copious sighs like the autumn wind.
John Cheever

We are most of us very lonely in this world; you who have any who love you, cling to them and thank God.
Source Unknown

The essence of this man [Richard M. Nixon] is loneliness.
Henry Kissinger

Columbus discovered no isle or key so lonely as himself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

To most people loneliness is a doom. Yet loneliness is the very thing which God has chosen to be one of the schools of training for His very own. It is the fire that sheds the dross and reveals the gold.
Bernard M. Martin

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. Now and then a fatal conjunction of events may lift the veil for an instant. For an instant only. No human being could bear a steady view of moral solitude without going mad.
Joseph Conrad

In our extreme youth, in our most humiliating sorrow, we think we are alone. When we are older we find that others have suffered too.
Suzanne Moarny

Loneliness is like a bad magnet it attracts anything even it’s not metal
Kareem Saady