(126 quotes found)
“What if a demon were to creep after you one night, in your loneliest loneliness, and say, 'This life which you live must be lived by you once again and innumerable times more; and every pain and joy and thought and sigh must come again to you, all in the same sequence. The eternal hourglass will again and again be turned and you with it, dust of the dust!' Would you throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse that demon? Or would you answer, 'Never have I heard anything more divine'?”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“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.”
Orson Welles
“Loneliness is about the scariest thing out there.”
Joss Whedon
“Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.”
Maya Angelou
“Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man.”
Thomas Wolfe
“Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.”
May Sarton
“Reading - the best state yet to keep absolute loneliness at bay.”
William Styron
“To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.”
Anna Louise Strong
“The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.”
Mother Teresa of Calcutta
“At the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep and powerful yearning for union with one's lost self.”
Brendan Francis
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