Quotes: Loneliness
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The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness.
American journalist
Yet it is in this loneliness that the deepest activities begin. It is here that you discover act without motion, labor that is profound repose, vision in obscurity, and, beyond all desire, a fulfillment whose limits extend to infinity.
priest and author
Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
Swedish diplomat, economist, and author (1905-1961)
Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.
British novelist, poet, dramatist, and travel writer
It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.
English composer, conductor, and pianist (1913-1976)
In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.
Loneliness seems to have become the great American disease.
The surest cure for vanity is loneliness.
American author and journalist (1930-2018)
The sky is one whole, the water another; and between those two infinities the soul of man is in loneliness.
Polish writer, novelist, journalist, philanthropist and Nobel Prize laureate
Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.