Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence? If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there. If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea; Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me. Psalms 139:7-10
The soul hardly ever realises it, but whether he is a believer or not, his loneliness is really a homesickness for God. > Hubert Van Zeller.
Loneliness is the first thing which God’s eye nam’d not good. > John Milton.
Solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone and leave it alone. > Thomas de Quincey.
The surest cure for vanity is loneliness. > Thomas Wolfe.
Art thou lonely, O my brother?
Share thy little with another?
Stretch a hand to one unfriended,
And thy loneliness has ended. > John Oxenham.
It may be true that he travels farthest who travels alone, but the goal thus reached is not worth reaching. > Theodore Roosevelt.
The deepest need of a man is the need to overcome his separateness, to leave the prison of his aloneness. > Erich Fromm.
The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence. > Thomas Wolfe.
If you think it’s hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball. > Jack Lemmon.
It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinions; it is easy in solitude to live after your own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. > Ralph Waldo Emerson.
In cities, no one is quiet but many are lonely; in the country, people are quiet but few are lonely. > Geoffrey Francis Fisher.
See also Joshua 1:5-9; Psalm 25:16-18.
