Quotes about Loneliness
while he himself traveled on a day’s journey into the wilderness. He sat down under a broom tree and prayed that he might die. “I have had enough, LORD,” he said. “Take my life, for I am no better than my fathers.”
- 1 Kings 19:4
Behold, may that night be barren; may no joyful voice come into it.
- Job 3:7
Will You never look away from me, or leave me alone to swallow my spittle?
- Job 7:19
He has removed my brothers from me; my acquaintances have abandoned me.
- Job 19:13
My kinsmen have failed me, and my friends have forgotten me.
- Job 19:14
My breath is repulsive to my wife, and I am loathsome to my own family.
- Job 19:17
Far from human habitation he cuts a shaft in places forgotten by the foot of man. Far from men he dangles and sways.
- Job 28:4
They abhor me and keep far from me; they do not hesitate to spit in my face.
- Job 30:10
I have become a brother of jackals, a companion of ostriches.
- Job 30:29
Turn to me and be gracious, for I am lonely and afflicted.
- Psalm 25:16
I am like a man who cannot hear, whose mouth offers no reply.
- Psalm 38:14
God settles the lonely in families; He leads the prisoners out to prosperity, but the rebellious dwell in a sun-scorched land.
- Psalm 68:6