Henri Nouwen Theologian, Author “In community, where you have all the affection you could ever dream of, you feel that there is a place where even community cannot reach. That's a very important experience. In that loneliness, which is like a dark night of the soul, you learn that God is greater than community.” Dream Dark Loneliness ♥ 6
George Orwell Writer, Journalist “To talk, simply to talk! It sounds so little, and how much it is! When you have existed to the brink of middle age in bitter loneliness, among people to whom your true opinion on every subject on earth is blasphemy, the need to talk is the greatest of all needs.” People Age Loneliness ♥ 6
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Author “Tranquility, allied to loneliness, possessed no charms.” Loneliness Charm ♥ 6
Maya Angelou Poet, Memoirist “Alone, all alone Nobody, but nobody Can make it out here alone.” Friendship Lonely ♥ 6
Henry Rollins Musician, Writer, Actor “Everything you do makes my body scream with loneliness.” Body Loneliness Scream ♥ 6
Leonard Cohen Singer-Songwriter “Please make me empty, if I'm empty then I can receive, if I can receive it means it comes from somewhere outside of me, if it comes from outside of me I'm not alone! I cannot bear this loneliness. Above all it is loneliness.” Mean Loneliness Bears ♥ 6
Johnny Depp Actor, Producer “My children's favorite, and it's funny because they've seen it but they have a difficult time watching it because it's their dad and they make that connection, but Edward Scissorhands is by far my kids' favorite. They just connect with the character, and they see their dad feeling that isolation, that loneliness. He's a tragic character, so I think it's hard for them. They bawl.” Children Dad Loneliness ♥ 6
Joyce Carol Oates Author, Poet “Writing is a solitary occupation, and one of its hazards is loneliness. But an advantage of loneliness is privacy, autonomy and freedom.” Writing Loneliness Hazards ♥ 6
Kurt Vonnegut Novelist, Satirist “How on earth can religious people believe in so much arbitrary, clearly invented balderdash?....The acceptance of a creed, any creed, entitles the acceptor to membership in the sort of artificial extended family we call a congregation. It is a way to fight loneliness. Any time I see a person fleeing from reason and into religion, I think to myself, There goes a person who simply cannot stand being so goddamned lonely anymore.” Religious Lonely Loneliness ♥ 6
Kurt Vonnegut Novelist, Satirist “In the beginning, God created the earth, and he looked upon it in his cosmic loneliness. And God said, "Let Us make living creatures out of mud, so the mud can see what We have done." And God created every living creature that now moveth, and one was man. Mud as man alone could speak. God leaned close to mud as man sat, looked around, and spoke. "What is the purpose of all this?" he asked politely. "Everything must have a purpose?" asked God. "Certainly," said man. "Then I leave it to you to think of one for all this," said God. And He went away.” Thinking Men Loneliness ♥ 6
Paul Merton Comedian, Actor “It was a bizarre existence I led in my early twenties - that cliche of the comedian who goes out and entertains a roomful of people and then goes home to a lonely bedsit was unbelievably poignant for me because that was exactly what I was doing. I had periods of real loneliness.” Real Lonely Loneliness ♥ 5
Paulo Coelho Writer “And if I'm alone in bed, I will go to the window, look up at the sky, and feel certain that loneliness is a lie, because the Universe is there to keep me company.” Lying Sky Loneliness ♥ 5
