Quotes about Loneliness
Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.
- Mother Teresa
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the worst poverty of all.
- Mother Teresa
Sometimes, I feel like one who is on the sidelines, who has missed life itself.
- Nelson Mandela
People shouldn't be allowed to live so far away," he said at the front door. "What do you gain by hiding away from the world like this? It'll catch up with you anyway.
- Olga Tokarczuk
And if I should live to beThe last leaf upon the treeIn the spring,Let them smile, as I do now,At the old forsaken boughWhere I cling.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
in every moment when you are parenting, you are being parented. In every moment when you are called to give grace, you are being given grace. In every moment when you are rescuing and protecting your children, you are being rescued and protected. In every moment when you feel alone, you are anything but alone because he goes wherever you go.
- Paul David Tripp
No one rose to his defense. He not only suffered; he suffered alone. Even his Father turned his back on him in his deepest moment of agony.
- Paul David Tripp
Loneliness can be conquered only by those who can bear solitude.
- Paul Tillich
To overcome our sense of loneliness is a life long pursuit. Let us not despair in its pursuit!
- Paul Tillich
Behold, this day You have driven me from the face of the earth, and from Your face I will be hidden; I will be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth, and whoever finds me will kill me.”
- Genesis 4:14
When he found her in the field, the betrothed woman cried out, but there was no one to save her.
- Deuteronomy 22:27
On the third day after I gave birth, this woman also had a baby. We were alone, with no one in the house but the two of us.
- 1 Kings 3:18