Quotations
Loneliness
When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
- Tennessee Williams
I felt very lonely when they were all there.
- Ernest Hemingway
Because, once alone, it is impossible to believe that one could ever have been otherwise. Loneliness is an absolute discovery.
- Marilynne Robinson
Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is richness of self.
- May Sarton
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
- Mother Teresa
Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
- John Steinbeck
Loneliness is the unloneliest feeling in the world, as everyone has experienced it.
- Jarod Kintz
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
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
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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