Quotations
Loneliness
When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
- Tennessee Williams
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
Novelty is a new kind of loneliness.
- Wendell Berry
When we cannot bear to be alone, it means we do not properly value the only companion we will have from birth to death - ourselves.
- Eda LeShan
Perhaps only people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the universe. The others have a certain stickiness, they stick to the mass.
- D. H. Lawrence
All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart.
- Tahereh Mafi
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
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
- Mother Teresa
The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with the present.
- Alan Lightman
The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
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