Pablo Neruda Quotes

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

The pain of loneliness seems to be part of the mortal experience. But the Lord in His mercy has made it so that we need never deal with the challenges of mortality alone.

You can be much more alone with other people than you are by yourself. Even if it's people you love.

Women and men in the crowd meet and mingle, Yet with itself every soul standeth single.

No one really wants to admit they are lonely, and it is never really addressed very much between friends and family. But I have felt lonely many times in my life.

If loneliness is part of our essence, that is, our essential nature, that is only because of the way, in practical terms, we actually exist; that is, the way we move and work and live in the world.

Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not.

I feel we are all islands - in a common sea.

We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.

We have all known the long loneliness, and we have found that the answer is community.

Man loves company - even if it is only that of a small burning candle.

People think that when you're connected with other people it's more painful. The opposite is true. When you're connected to the river you have despair, but you also have joy, and there's a flow in the river.

It was either Voltaire or Charlie Sheen who said, 'We are born alone. We live alone. We die alone. And anything in between that can give us the illusion that we're not, we cling to.'

Anything that makes you feel the most alone also has the greatest power to connect you.

Look, if I were alone in the world, I would have the right to choose despair, solitude and self-fulfillment. But I am not alone.

When I was a child, there's one thing I said: 'I never want to be alone.' That's what I would say. I don't want to be alone.

When people are with me, who can say I am alone.

I never feel as though I'm ever, ever alone.

There are some nights when you just want to know there's someone else besides you in this wide world.

One of the oldest aches in the bones of humanity is loneliness. I mean it's one of the things that goes way back; loneliness is not good for the world. And so, whoever you are, gay or straight, it is totally normal, natural, and healthy to want somebody to go through life with. It's central to our humanity.

Each way means loneliness -- and communion.

I realize, for the first time, how very lonely I've been in the arena. How comforting the presence of another human being can be.

We walk alone through this world, but if we're lucky, we have a moment of belonging to something, to someone, that sustains us through a lifetime of loneliness.

People are meant to go through life two by two. ’Tain’t natural to be lonesome.

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.