Phrases and aphorisms on loneliness and being alone

by Online Education Online Botho University

The English language has wisely sensed the two contradictory aspects of loneliness. So he created the word "solitude" to express the choice of being alone (the lonely man who is comfortable with himself). And he created the word "loneliness" to express a loneliness suffered and not chosen. In the Italian language to express the two concepts there is only the word "solitude".

Loneliness can be a terrible sentence or a wonderful conquest.

(Bernardo Bertolucci)

There are days when solitude is an intoxicating wine that inspires you freedom, others where it is a bitter tonic, and still others where it is a poison that makes you bang your head against the wall.

(Colette)

Solitude is really complicated, it is a mixture of proud freedom and desperate despair.

(bubble_bo, Twitter)

Loneliness is cursed suffering not when you are alone

but when you have the feeling that you count for nothing.

(Enzo Bianchi)

Sometimes it's as if I miss that part of the soul that fits into the puzzle of the world. I open thousands of boxes, I find beautiful and colorful pieces, but it is within me that the piece with which to complete the joint is missing.

(Fabrizio Caramagna)

There are moments of loneliness that suddenly fall like a curse in the middle of a day.

These are the moments when the soul no longer vibrates.

(Alda Merini)

They run as if they had fire under their ass in search of something that is not found. It is basically the fear of facing yourself, it is basically the fear of being alone.

Instead, the crowd frightens me.

(Charles Bukowski)

I'm too glad you're here. I would almost like to enjoy it in solitude.

(Carlo Gragnani)

When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, humans are like that.

(Getrude Stein)

Loneliness either makes us find ourselves or makes us lose ourselves.

(Roberto Gervaso)

Loneliness: a sea never reached by any shore, a bridge by no road, a color by no light.

(Fabrizio Caramagna)

Loneliness is when you feel a pile of pages that make up no book, a pile of grains of sand that do not sculpt any beach, a bundle of atoms of light that do not draw any sky.

(Fabrizio Caramagna)

I don't know what's worse: not knowing who you are and being happy, or becoming what you've always wanted to be, and feeling lonely.

(Daniel Keyes)

With all the people living on this planet, and if each of us looks for something in the other, why do we have to be so alone in the end? For what? Maybe the planet continues to rotate feeding on the loneliness of people?

(Haruki Murakami)

There is no loneliness. You are always preparing a meeting with someone out there even if you don't know. Quotes on be alone and strong