Lonely Feeling Quotes

It's a hard, lonely feeling, to be completely yourself in front of strangers.

It is a lonely feeling when someone you care about becomes a stranger.

Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets.

The exhilaration was hard to explain. It was a lonely feeling — a somehow melancholy feeling. He was outside; he passed on the wings of the wind, and none of the people beyond the brightly lighted squares of their windows saw him. They were inside, inside where there was light and warmth. They didn't know he had passed them; only he knew. It was a secret thing.

You have no idea what it is to have anybody wonderful fond of you, unless you have been got down and rolled upon by the lonely feelings that I have mentioned as having once got the better of me.

The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.

You sometimes think you want to disappear, but all you really want is to be found.

What I do is I write mainly about very personal and rather lonely feelings, and I explore them in a different way each time. You know, what I do is not terribly intellectual. I'm a pop singer for Christ's sake. As a person, I'm fairly uncomplicated.

Distrust brings frustration and fear. So therefore, the lonely feeling automatically come. So, lonely feeling is not creation of environment, but creation of your own mental attitude.

Well, see, I think it's that most people don't like that lonely feeling. People don't like looking up and feeling small or lost. That's what I think prayer is all about. It doesn't matter which stories they believe in, they're all doing the same thing, kind of casting a line out to outer space, like there's something out there to connect to. It's like people make themselves part of something bigger that way, and maybe it makes them less afraid.

I still think that the greatest suffering is being lonely, feeling unloved, just having no one... That is the worst disease that any human being can ever experience.

There is much suffering in the world - physical, material, mental. The suffering of some can be blamed on the greed of others. The material and physical suffering is suffering from hunger, from homelessness, from all kinds of diseases. But the greatest suffering is being lonely, feeling unloved, having no one. I have come more and more to realize that it is being unwanted that is the worst disease that any human being can ever experience.

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.

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

We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.

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.

We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.

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

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.

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

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.

I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.

The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.

I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.

Loneliness is the first thing which God's eye named not good.

To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.

They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts.

If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.

I've also seen that great men are often lonely. This is understandable, because they have built such high standards for themselves that they often feel alone. But that same loneliness is part of their ability to create.

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

Loneliness is my least favorite thing about life. The thing that I'm most worried about is just being alone without anybody to care for or someone who will care for me.

A person's heart withers if it does not answer another heart.

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.

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.

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.

We are born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Everything in-between is a gift.

I don't want to be alone, I want to be left alone.

When we truly realize that we are all alone is when we need others the most.

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

I used to think the worst thing in life was to end up all alone. It's not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel all alone.

Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.

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

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

It is better to be alone than in bad company.