Quotes about Loneliness
When Christ said: "I was hungry and you fed me," he didn't mean only the hunger for bread and for food; he also meant the hunger to be loved. Jesus himself experienced this loneliness.
- Mother Teresa
One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.
- Mother Teresa
Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.
- St. Jerome
What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
A career is wonderful, but you can't curl up with it on a cold night.
- Marilyn Monroe
Be good and you will be lonely.
- Mark Twain
There were times when he could not read the face he had studied so long, and when this lonely girl was a greater mystery to him than any women of the world...
- Charles Dickens
Not just romantic love, but love so deep, so full of respect, so full of gratitude for saving her from loneliness. He'd protected her when no man ever had before. She didn't even fear it or regret how vulnerable it made her to love Gage. It was too powerful, too wonderful.
- Mary Connealy
Now he watched the two of them, joined together against a troubled world, and he knew the lack in his own life.
- Mary Connealy
We can cure physical diesases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread, but there are many more dying for a little love
- Mother Teresa
Valentines Day is a masochistic holiday. If you're in a relationship, then this is the one day you're supposed to say 'I love you', and send gifts to ensure that it means more than the other 364 days of the year; and if you're single, you feel misera
- St. Basil
The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.
- Mother Teresa