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
Quotations
Loneliness
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
"The Eternal Now"
I need the pain of loneliness to make my imagination work.
-Orhan Pamuk
The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with the present.
-Alan Lightman
"Einstein's Dreams"
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
-Mother Teresa
If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.
-Jean Paul Sartre
All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart.
-Tahereh Mafi
"Shatter Me"
What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
-George Eliot
You cannot be lonely if you like the person you’re alone with.
-Wayne W. Dyer
Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.
-Arthur C. Clarke
