Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is richness of self.
-May Sarton
Quotations
Loneliness
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"
If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.
-Aldous Huxley
"Brave New World"
Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.
-Woody Allen
We live as we dream--Alone.
-Joseph Conrad
"Heart of Darkness"
Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.
-Douglas Coupland
"Shampoo Planet"
ut there are other words for privacy and independence. They are isolation and loneliness.
-Megan Whalen Turner
"The King of Attolia"
All great and precious things are lonely.
-John Steinbeck
"East of Eden"
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"
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
"The Consolations of Philosophy"
