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Quotes About Loneliness

Marriage is lonelier than solitude.
~ Adrienne Rich
After three failed marriages, I know what it's like to be replaced.
~ Terry Bradshaw
Not every happy person is married, and, Not every married person is happy.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
If a man knows more than others, he becomes lonely.
~ Carl Jung
It's better to be dead, or even perfectly well, than to suffer from the wrong affliction. The man who owns up to arthritis in a beri-beri year is as lonely as a woman in a last month's dress.
~ John Forbes Nash
I'm quite disappointed that I'm still the last man on the moon.
~ Gene Cernan
I am loved by thousands, but I feel like the loneliest man in the world.
~ Freddie Mercury
Yes, I am the last man to have walked on the moon, and that's a very dubious and disappointing honor. It's been far too long.
~ Gene Cernan
North was only a direction indicated by a compass--if a man had one, that is, for otherwise there was no north or south or east or west; there was only the brooding desolation.
~ Shelby Foote
There's an old man sitting next to me, making love to his tonic and gin.
~ Billy Joel
Life's been good to me. Why am I so lonely and bored? I used to wonder why so many rich men commit suicide. I no longer wonder.
~ O. J. Simpson
My reputation as a ladies' man was a joke that caused me to laugh bitterly through the ten thousand nights I spent alone.
~ Leonard Cohen
Staring at the world through the bottom of a glass, all I see is a man who's fading fast.
~ Merle Haggard
Men don't even ask me out. I can't remember the last time I was asked out on a date, and I'm talking years here. I spend my life more and more alone.
~ Anna Nicole Smith
Men resemble great deserted palaces: the owner occupies only a few rooms and has closed-off wings where he never ventures.
~ Francois Mauriac
Men's legs have a terribly lonely life - standing in the dark in your trousers all day.
~ Ken Dodd
This unrequited love, to me it's nothing but a one-man cult/And cyanide in my styrofoam cup
~ Frank Ocean
In solitude the lonely man is eaten up by himself, among crowds by the many.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
I do not know the man so bold He dare in lonely Place That awful stranger Consciousness Deliberately face-.
~ Emily Dickinson
Sometimes a woman needs a man for company, no matter how useless he is.
~ Lisa Kleypas, Sugar Daddy
The depressed man lives in a depressed world.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
I have known the silence of the stars and of the sea. And the silence of the city when it pauses, And the silence of a man and a maid, And the silence for which music alone finds the word.
~ Edgar Lee Masters
Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.
~ Robert Frost
There is no one so lonely than a man who loves only himself.
~ Abraham ibn Ezra