Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.
-Woody Allen
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
"Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom"
I need the pain of loneliness to make my imagination work.
-Orhan Pamuk
Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
-John Steinbeck
"Of Mice and Men"
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
-Mother Teresa
Learning from other people's mistakes is better than making your own. And it is easier to live lonely than to have a broken heart.
-Aria Adams
"Reminiscence"
Man’s loneliness is but his fear of life.
-Eugene O'Neill
Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than to be in bad company.
-Booker T. Washington
The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!
-Edith Wharton
"The Age of Innocence"
Companionship is a foreign concept to some people. They fear it as much as the majority of people fear loneliness.
-Criss Jami
