Quotes about loneliness

Surely if each saw another's heart,

There would be no commerce,

No sale or bargain pass: all would disperse,

And live apart.

By all means use sometimes to be alone.

An empty house is like a stray dog or a body from which life has departed.

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

He hated the thought of the past; there was nothing that called out his love and fellowship toward the strangers he had come amongst; and the future was all dark.

He seemed to weave, like the spider, from pure impulse, without reflection. Every man's work, pursued steadily, tends in this way to become an end in itself, and so to bridge over the loveless chasms of his life.

"What do you do from morning to night?" "I endure myself."

At this very moment, I am suffering — as we say in French, j'ai mal. This event, crucial for me, is nonexistent, even inconceivable for anyone else, for everyone else. Except for God, if that word can have a meaning.

Having destroyed all my connections, burned my bridges, I should feel a certain freedom, and in fact I do. One so intense I am afraid to rejoice in it.

As the years pass, the number of those we can communicate with diminishes. When there is no longer anyone to talk to, at last we will be as we were before stooping to a name.

Each of us is born with a share of purity, predestined to be corrupted by our commerce with mankind, by that sin against solitude.

We replace God as best we can; for every god is good, provided he perpetuates in eternity our desire for a crucial solitude. . . .