Quotations
Loneliness
Man’s loneliness is but his fear of life.
- Eugene O'Neill
It's weird to feel like you miss someone you're not even sure you know.
- David Foster Wallace
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
Loneliness is not a result of physical isolation; you're only lonely the day you realize that nobody shares your opinions.
- Sabah Carrim
Nobody can discover the world for somebody else. Only when we discover it for ourselves does it become common ground and a common bond and we cease to be alone.
- Wendell Berry
The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.
- Lois Lowry
To be alone is to be different, to be different is to be alone.
- Suzanne Gordon
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
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
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
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