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Quotations about loneliness

Mother TeresaThe most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.

 - Mother Teresa

Tags:   loneliness  poverty  

Robin WilliamsI used to think the worst thing in life is 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.

 - Robin Williams

Tags:   loneliness  

Pearl BuckThe 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

Tags:   inspiration  loneliness  

Carl JungLoneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.

 - Carl Jung

Tags:   communication  loneliness  

Banana YpshimotoWhen was it I realized that, on this truly dark and solitary path we all walk, the only way we can light is our own? Although I was raised with love, I was always lonely. Someday, without fail, everyone will disappear, scattered into the blackness of time.

 - Banana Yoshimoto

Tags:   death  loneliness  

Nick TroutThere are many reasons why so many of us choose to share our lives with a pet--it's the perfect antidote for loneliness, providing an endless supply of smiles and the certainty of unwavering companionship, and many of us have seen the way a pet can make a family feel whole.

 - Nick Trout

Tags:   companionship  loneliness  pets  

Jiddu KrishnamurtiI wonder if you have noticed how lonely most people are? And to escape from loneliness we run to temples, churches, or mosques, we dress up and attend social functions, we watch television, listen to the radio, read, and so on. If you inquire a little into boredom you will find that the cause of it is loneliness. It is in order to escape from loneliness that we want to be together, we want to be entertained, to have distractions of every kind: gurus, religious ceremonies, prayers, or the latest novel. Being inwardly lonely we become mere spectators in life; and we can be the players only when we understand loneliness and go beyond it. .. . because beyond it lies the real treasure.

 - Jiddu Krishnamurti

Tags:   boredom  loneliness  

Khalil GibranI have found both freedom and safety in my madness; the freedom of loneliness and the safety from being understood, for those who understand us enslave something in us.

 - Khalil Gibran

Tags:   freedom  loneliness  madness  safety  

Samuel JohnsonIf a man does not make new acquaintance as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, Sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair.

 - Samuel Johnson

Tags:   friendship  loneliness