Latest Quotes

“A lonely day is God's way of saying that he wants to spend some quality time with you.”

— Criss Jami, Killosophy

“The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.”

— Blaise Pascal, Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connaît point

“There is a loneliness more precious than life. There is a freedom more precious than the world. Infinitely more precious than life and the world is that moment when one is alone with God.”

— Rumi, Path Of Sufi

“When I lay alone and lonely in my tent at night I asked, often out loud: Who is tougher than me? The answer was always the same, and even when I knew absolutely there was no way on this earth that it was true, I said it anyway: No one.’”

— Cheryl Strayed, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

“Alone had always felt like an actual place to me, as if it weren’t a state of being, but rather a room where I could retreat to be who I really was.”

— Cheryl Strayed, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

“If you learn to really sit with loneliness and embrace it for the gift that it is…an opportunity to get to know YOU, to learn how strong you really are, to depend on no one but YOU for your happiness…you will realize that a little loneliness goes a LONG way in creating a richer, deeper, more vibrant…”

— Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass

“"Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better."”

— Henry Rollins, Twitter

“They say a good love is one that sits you down, gives you a drink of water, and pats you on top of the head. But I say a good love is one that casts you into the wind, sets you ablaze, makes you burn through the skies and ignite the night like a phoenix; the kind that cuts you loose like a wildfire…”

— C. Joybell C., lovequotes.net.in

“For my part, I prefer my heart to be broken. It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack.”

— D. H. Lawrence, Pomegranate

“Perhaps the reason we are unable to love is that we yearn to be loved, that is, we demand something (love) from our partner instead of delivering ourselves up to him demand-free and asking for nothing but his company.”

— Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being: A Novel

“Lonely is a funny thing. It's almost like another person. After a while it will keep you company if you let it”

— Ann Packer, The Dive From Clausen's Pier: A Novel

“The course of true love never did run smooth.”

— William Shakespeare, Lysander, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act 1, Scene 1

“Letting go doesn’t mean that you don’t care about someone anymore. It’s just realizing that the only person you really have control over is yourself.”

— Deborah Reber, Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul

“Anyone who loves in the expectation of being loved in return is wasting their time.”

— Paulo Coelho, The Devil And Miss Prym

“If you are never alone, you cannot know yourself. And if you do not know yourself, you will begin to fear the void.”

— Paulo Coelho, Manuscript Found in Accra

“The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend.”

— Edith Wharton,, The Age of Innocence: By Edith Wharton: Illustrated

“I have found both freedom and safety in my madness; the freedom of loneliness and the safety from being understood, for those who understand us enslave something in us.”

— Khalil Gibran, The Prophet

“We’re all seeking that special person who is right for us. But if you’ve been through enough relationships, you begin to suspect there’s no right person, just different flavors of wrong. Why is this? Because you yourself are wrong in some way, and you seek out partners who are wrong in some compleme…”

— Andrew Boyd, Daily Afflictions

“You think because he doesn’t love you that you are worthless. You think that because he doesn’t want you anymore that he is right — that his judgement and opinion of you are correct. If he throws you out, then you are garbage. You think he belongs to you because you want to belong to him. Don’t. It’…”

— Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon

“Loneliness, when accepted, becomes a gift that will lead us to find a purpose in life.”

— Paulo Coelho, Manuscript Found in Accra