Loneliness isn’t a lack of people. It is a lack of understanding and acceptance.
-Bronnie Ware
Quotations
Loneliness
As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.
-Maya Angelou
I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
-Henry David Thoreau
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"
I have no privacy. But I feel so alone.
-Susan Beth Pfeffer
"Life As We Knew It"
Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is richness of self.
-May Sarton
When we cannot bear to be alone, it means we do not properly value the only companion we will have from birth to death - ourselves.
-Eda LeShan
Being alone never felt right. Sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.
-Charles Bukowski
"Women"
Solitude is where one discovers one is not alone.
-Marty Rubin
Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.
-Lawrence Durrell
