Loneliness isn’t a lack of people. It is a lack of understanding and acceptance.
-Bronnie Ware
Quotations
Loneliness
ut there are other words for privacy and independence. They are isolation and loneliness.
-Megan Whalen Turner
"The King of Attolia"
To be alone is to be different, to be different is to be alone.
-Suzanne Gordon
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"
I felt very lonely when they were all there.
-Ernest Hemingway
"A Farewell to Arms"
Thirsty for attention is a cry of loneliness.
-Toba Beta
"My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut"
We live as we dream--Alone.
-Joseph Conrad
"Heart of Darkness"
Perhaps only people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the universe. The others have a certain stickiness, they stick to the mass.
-D. H. Lawrence
"Lady Chatterley's Lover"
Even the company of the mad was better than the company of the dead.
-Stephen King
"The Stand"
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"
