Soren Kierkegaard Quotes

And he who has dwelt with his heart alone, Hears all the music in friendship's tone. So better and better I comprehend How sorrow ever would be our friend.

For me, books have always been a way to feel less alone while being alone. Perhaps if I was depressed and isolated, just communicating with these authors through their sentences helped me.

Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not.

One of the things reading does, it makes your loneliness manageable if you are an essentially lonely person.

People who lead a lonely existence always have something on their minds that they are eager to talk about.

I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

So it is that Lonely Places attract as many lonely people as they produce, and the loneliness we see in them is partly in ourselves.

Some nights are made for torture, or reflection, or the savoring of loneliness.

In my room I'd barely closed my eyes when the blonde from the movie house came along and sang her whole song of sorrow just for me. I helped her put me to sleep, so to speak, and succeeded pretty well... I wasn't entirely alone... It's not possible to sleep alone.

Me and my shadow Strolling down the avenue Oh, me and my shadow Not a soul to tell our troubles to And when it's twelve o'clock we climb the stairs We never knock 'cause nobody's there Just me and my shadow All alone and feeling blue

Music is your only friend until the end...

Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.

The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.

What good is sitting all alone in your room?

If you are lonely when you are alone, you are in poor company.

I like melancholy. I like to pretend that I'm alone in the world and I'm just sort of abandoned.

There's a difference between solitude and loneliness. I can understand the concept of being a monk for a while.

The interesting thing is why we're so desperate for this anesthetic against loneliness.

Remember that although the distinction can be difficult to draw, loneliness and solitude are different.

All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.

When you have a lot of solitude, any living thing becomes a companion.

Solitude vivifies; isolation kills.

There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.

Isolation is the worst possible counselor.

For most of my childhood, even through college, there was a lot of feeling very alone. I loved TV, so when those very special episodes of anything came, or when certain characters reflected the world I lived in, I felt connected.