Quotes about Loneliness

There is a chill air surrounding those who are down in the world, and people are glad to get away from them, as from a cold room.

Some nights in the midst of this loneliness I swung among the scattered stars at the end of the thin thread of faith alone.

Loneliness does not come from having no people around you, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem most important to you.

There'll be days when I'm blue or angry or frustrated. Days when it seems like nothing's going right. Sometimes I feel lonely, or I might wish my life had taken a different turn or two. But when you've got the Holy Spirit living in your heart, Pete, you know for sure that God is walking with you. He's beside you and in you and all around you. And that's what I call joy.

Everyone has a home but me.

My plea...is a plea to save the children. Too many of them walk with pain and fear, in loneliness and despair. Children need sunlight...They need kindness and refreshment and affection. Every home, regardless of the cost of the house, can provide an environment of love which will be an environment of salvation.

It was not very long before that room again knew her, often; sitting there alone, as patient and as mild as when she had watched beside the little bed. When any sharp sense of its being empty smote upon her, she could kneel beside it, and pray GOD — it was the pouring out of her full heart — to let one angel love her and remember her.

When the sting of anguish penetrates the heart of human love; when gloom and loneliness and desertion cloud the soul of friendship and trust, then it is that the heart turns toward the sheltering love of the Eternal, and finds rest in its silent peace. And whosoever comes to this Love is not turned away comfortless, is not pierced with anguish nor surrounded with gloom; and is never deserted in the dark hour of trial.

His whole future seemed suddenly to be unrolled before him; and passing down its endless emptiness he saw the dwindling figure of a man to whom nothing was ever to happen.

One aged man - one man - can't fill a house.

I hope you will not have a building of any kind, not a summer cottage, a hotel, or anything else, to mar the wonderful grandeur, the sublimity, the loneliness and beauty of the canyon. Leave it as it is.

Imagine all human beings swept off the face of the earth, excepting one man. Imagine this man in some vast city, New York or London. Imagine him on the third or fourth day of his solitude sitting in a house and hearing a ring at the door-bell!