Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate.
Germaine Greer

Loneliness is proof that your innate search for connection is intact.
Martha Beck

Loneliness is the most terrible poverty.
Mother Teresa

Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.
May Sarton

Loneliness is the ultimate poverty.
Abigail Van Buren

Loneliness is the universal problem of rich people.
Joan Collins

Loneliness seems to have become the great American disease.
John Corry

Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.
Bertrand Russell

Man's loneliness is but his fear of life.
Eugene O'Neill

Moon! Moon! I am prone before you. Pity me, and drench me in loneliness.
Amy Lowell

Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.
Lawrence Durrell

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
Maya Angelou

My inspiration are the woman, friendship, and loneliness.
Enrique Iglesias

My peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication - it makes them sociable. I, however, cannot force myself to use drugs to cheat on my loneliness - it is all that I have - and when the drugs and alcohol dissipate, will be all that my peers have as well.
Franz Kafka

No one ever discovers the depths of his own loneliness.
Georges Bernanos

Nothing makes us more vulnerable than loneliness, except greed.
Thomas Harris

Oh, this absolute loneliness and the game - loving to play the game, loving to go and tell stories to men that certainly weren't true, just for the sport of it, just to see how they would react.
Jennifer Beals

Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.
Paul Tillich

People drain me, even the closest of friends, and I find loneliness to be the best state in the union to live in.
Margaret Cho

Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
Dag Hammarskjold