Loneliness Quotes - Page 8
Octavius Winslow (1860). “Divine Realities; or, spiritual reflections for the saint and sinner”, p.19
Ian Fleming (2012). “The Spy Who Loved Me: James Bond 007”, p.5, Random House
An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.
Henry Miller (1977). “Tropic of Cancer”
Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
"Markings". Book by Dag Hammarskjold, 1964.
Loneliness is the first thing which God's eye named not good.
John Milton (2009). “The Complete Poetry and Essential Prose of John Milton”, p.997, Modern Library
"Shantaram". Book by Gregory David Roberts, 2003.
Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.49, A&C Black
Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.
Edward Gibbon (1821). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.277
No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.
Aristotle (1953). “Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics”
Freedom' is the most expensive possession there is; it has to be paid for with loneliness.
Martha Gellhorn, Caroline Moorehead (2006). “The letters of Martha Gellhorn”, Vintage
"Wisdom from Gift from the Sea".
Thomas Carlyle (1870). “Past and Present”, p.381
Loneliness is inner emptiness. Solitude is inner fulfillment.
Richard J. Foster (1995*). “Richard Foster's treasury of Christian discipline”, Jossey-Bass