Loneliness

People are often lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.
--Anonymous

The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
--Pearl S. Buck

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
--Mother Theresa

It has the beauty of loneliness and of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature, and everlasting beauty of monotony.
--Benjamin Britten

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

Man has no choice but to love. For when he does not, he finds his alternatives lie in loneliness, destruction and despair.
--Leo Buscaglia

You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.
--Wayne Dyer

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

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

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

When people are lonely they stoop to any companionship.
--Lew Wallace

Unless we love and are loved, each of us is alone, each of us is deeply lonely.
--Mortimer Adler

The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.
--Mother Teresa

Language... has created the word "loneliness" to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word "solitude" to express the glory of being alone.
--Paul Tillich

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

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, Jr

We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community.
--Dorothy Day

When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
--Tennessee Williams

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

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

Little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.
--Francis Bacon