Quotations
Loneliness
Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.
- Arthur C. Clarke
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
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
Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.
- Woody Allen
I need the pain of loneliness to make my imagination work.
- Orhan Pamuk
Thirsty for attention is a cry of loneliness.
- Toba Beta
I have no privacy. But I feel so alone.
- Susan Beth Pfeffer
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
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
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
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