Quotations
Loneliness
Language... has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.
- Paul Johannes Tillich
Though we longed not to be lonely, we also feared the pain it would take us to be brought out of our lonely states. And after that fear, could we be guaranteed that we would never be returned to a state of loneliness again? We could not.
- Edward Carey
Loneliness is the prison of the human spirit. When we are lonely, we pace back and forth in small, shut-in worlds.
- John Powell
There is the solitude of suffering, when you go through darkness that is lonely, intense, and terrible. Words become powerless to express your pain; what others hear from your words is so distant and different from what you are actually suffering.
- John O'donohue
My sleep wasn't peaceful, though. I have the sense of emerging from a world of dark, haunted places where I traveled alone.
- Suzanne Collins
You cannot be lonely if you like the person you’re alone with.
- Wayne W. Dyer
The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely.
- Charlotte Brontë
Only on the Internet can a person be lonely and popular at the same time.
- Allison Burnett
It's weird to feel like you miss someone you're not even sure you know.
- David Foster Wallace
Loneliness is the unloneliest feeling in the world, as everyone has experienced it.
- Jarod Kintz
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