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Quotes about Loneliness
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“We're all in this alone.”
“Loneliness breaks the spirit.”
“Be good and you will be lonely.”
“Strife is better than loneliness.”
“I celebrate myself, and sing myself.”
“Of my friends I am the only one left.”
“Man's loneliness is but his fear of life.”
“The surest cure for vanity is loneliness.”
“I was never less alone than when by myself.”
“To live alone is the fate of all great souls.”
“One aged man -- one man -- can't fill a house.”
“It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.”
“We enter the world alone, we leave the world alone.”
“Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man.”
“No one ever discovers the depths of his own loneliness.”
“When people are lonely they stoop to any companionship.”
“Columbus discovered no isle or key so lonely as himself.”
“The essence of this man [Richard M. Nixon] is loneliness.”
“If you are lonely when you are alone, you are in bad company.”
“All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.”
“You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.”
“There is none more lonely than the man who loves only himself.”
“Every time I look at you I get a fierce desire to be lonesome.”
“People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.”
“It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.”
“The eternal quest of the human being is to shatter his loneliness.”
“It is a rather pleasant experience to be alone in a bank at night.”
“When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone.”
“We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.”
“On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.”