|
|
| Home -› Quotations -› Category-wise -› L -› Loneliness Quotes |
| Quotations On Loneliness |
No one ever discovers the depths of his own loneliness.
-- Georges Bernanos
1888-1948, French Novelist, Political Writer
|
Only in a house where one has learnt to be lonely does one have this solicitude for things. One's relation to them, the daily seeing or touching, begins to become love, and to lay one open to pain.
-- Elizabeth Bowen
1899-1973, Anglo-Irish Novelist
|
All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.
-- Jean De La Bruyère
1645-1696, French Classical Writer
|
Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man.
-- Thomas Carlyle
1795-1881, Scottish Philosopher, Author
|
|
|
| |
A lonely man is a lonesome thing, a stone, a bone, a stick, a receptacle for Gilbey's gin, a stooped figure sitting at the edge of a hotel bed, heaving copious sighs like the autumn wind.
-- John Cheever
1912-1982, American Author
|
Who knows what true loneliness is -- not the conventional word, but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion. Now and then a fatal conjunction of events may lift the veil for an instant. For an instant only. No human being could bear a steady view of moral solitude without going mad.
-- Joseph Conrad
1857-1924, Polish-born British Novelist
|
The eternal quest of the human being is to shatter his loneliness.
-- Norman Cousins
1915-1990, American Editor, Humanitarian, Author
|
What torments my soul is its loneliness. The more it expands among friends and the daily habits or pleasures, the more, it seems to me, it flees me and retires into its fortress. The poet who lives in solitude, but who produces much, is the one who enjoys those treasures we bear in our bosom, but which forsake us when we give ourselves to others. When one yields oneself completely to one's soul, it opens itself to one, and then it is that the capricious thing allows one the greatest of good fortunes... that of sympathizing with others, of studying itself, of painting itself constantly in its works.
-- Eugène Delacroix
1798-1863, French Artist
|
|
|
|
|
|
