Everyone desires relationships and community. Most people want to belong to a cohesive, like-minded group. It staves off loneliness. It promotes... →
Joshua Ferris
Why do I write? It's not that I want people to think I am smart, or even that I am a good writer. I write because I want to end my loneliness.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Loneliness and rootlessness are just symptoms of an insecurity that assails us all when hitting this midlife moment. The world appears intent on... →
Mariella Frostrup
I would have to say loneliness is next to uncleanliness.
Janeane Garofalo
The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.
Edward Gibbon
There is a huge sense of loneliness as people leave villages and move to cities. It's hard to find that human connection as you move away from... →
Mohsin Hamid
Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
Dag Hammarskjold
Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear.
Everybody has something that chews them up and, for me, that thing was always loneliness. The cinema has the power to make you not feel lonely, even... →
Tom Hanks