Quotations
Loneliness
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
Because, once alone, it is impossible to believe that one could ever have been otherwise. Loneliness is an absolute discovery.
- Marilynne Robinson
It's weird to feel like you miss someone you're not even sure you know.
- David Foster Wallace
Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books written because authors couldn't find anyone to talk to.
- Alain De Botton
Man’s loneliness is but his fear of life.
- Eugene O'Neill
Thirsty for attention is a cry of loneliness.
- Toba Beta
I am lonely, sometimes, but I dare say it's good for me.
- Louisa May Alcott
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
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
- Mother Teresa
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
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