Loneliness

Loneliness breaks the spirit. – Yiddish Proverb

No one ever discovers the depths of his own loneliness. – Georges Bernanos

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

Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man. – Thomas Carlyle

It is said of a lonely man that he does not appreciate the life of society. This is like saying he hates hiking because he dislikes walking in thick forest on a dark night. – Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort

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

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

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

In cities no one is quiet but many are lonely; in the country, people are quiet but few are lonely. – Geoffrey F. Fisher

Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it. The way it tunnels into you allows your soul room to grow. – Janet Fitch

At the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep and powerful yearning for union with ones lost self. – Brendan Francis

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 and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature. – Anne Frank

One aged man — one man — cant fill a house. – Robert Frost

What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear. – Dag Hammarskjold

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