There is no greater sorrow than to recall in misery the time when we were happy.DanteAttributed in the original GADEL collection
Feeling Lonely and Loneliness Quotes, Sayings and Proverbs
Short selections recovered from GADEL’s original collection. Wording is kept as found; the archived attribution is not a verification of authorship.
A lonely person is at home everywhere.Russian proverbTraditional attribution
Loneliness is about the scariest thing there is.AnonymousTraditional attribution
Better be alone than in bad company.Thomas FullerAttributed in the original GADEL collection
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being.Pearl S. BuckAttributed in the original GADEL collection
What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?T.S. EliotAttributed in the original GADEL collection
If you are afraid of being lonely, don’t try to be right.Jules RenardAttributed in the original GADEL collection
The palace leads to fame, the market to fortune, and loneliness to wisdom.Chinese proverbTraditional attribution
Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.Dag HammarskjoldAttributed in the original GADEL collection
When we truly realize that we are all alone is when we need others the most.Ronald AnthonyAttributed in the original GADEL collection
It’s so lonely when you don’t even know yourself.AnonymousTraditional attribution
We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone.Orson WellesAttributed in the original GADEL collection
Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate.Germaine GreerAttributed in the original GADEL collection
The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.Cyril ConnollyAttributed in the original GADEL collection
Loneliness is the first thing which God’s eye named, not good.John MiltonAttributed in the original GADEL collection
Who knows what true loneliness is – not the conventional word but the naked terror?Joseph ConradAttributed in the original GADEL collection
Loneliness is the ultimate poverty.Abigail Van BurenAttributed in the original GADEL collection
Loneliness breaks the spirit.Jewish proverbTraditional attribution
What should young people do with their lives today?Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.Attributed in the original GADEL collection
People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.Joseph F NewtonAttributed in the original GADEL collection
Here I sit between my brother the mountain and my sister the sea.Kahlil GibranAttributed in the original GADEL collection
I don’t want to be alone, I want to be left alone.Audrey HepburnAttributed in the original GADEL collection
When everyone leaves you it’s loneliness you feel, when you leave everyone else it’s solitude.Alfred PolgarAttributed in the original GADEL collection
Strife is better than loneliness.Irish proverbTraditional attribution
The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all.Doug CouplandAttributed in the original GADEL collection
Loneliness the clearest of crystal insight into your own soul, its the fear of one’s own self that haunts the lonely.Keith HaynieAttributed in the original GADEL collection
If you are choosing between bad company and loneliness, choose the second option.Spanish proverbTraditional attribution
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Original title: Feeling Lonely and Loneliness Quotes, Sayings and Proverbs
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