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    Language has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone, and the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.

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To be adult is to be alone.

To be adult is to be alone.

by Jean Rostand Found in: Loneliness Quotes,
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If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state read more

If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

by Andre Breton Found in: Loneliness Quotes,
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The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious read more

The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.

by Thomas Wolfe Found in: Loneliness Quotes,
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Be good and you will be lonely.

Be good and you will be lonely.

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

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

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People who lead a lonely existence always have something on their minds that they are eager to talk about.

People who lead a lonely existence always have something on their minds that they are eager to talk about.

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Who knows what true loneliness is -- not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it read more

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.

by Joseph Conrad Found in: Loneliness Quotes,
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Being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.

Being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.

by Charles Bukowski Found in: Loneliness Quotes,
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One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul, and yet no one ever comes to sit by it.

One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul, and yet no one ever comes to sit by it.

by Vincent Van Gogh Found in: Loneliness Quotes,
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