Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
-Mother Teresa
Quotations
Loneliness
People who do a job that claims to be creative have to be alone to recharge their batteries. You can’t live 24 hours a day in the spotlight and remain creative. For people like me, solitude is a victory.
-Karl Lagerfeld
Man’s loneliness is but his fear of life.
-Eugene O'Neill
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"
We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community.
-Dorothy Day
"The Long Loneliness: The Autobiography of the Legendary Catholic Social Activist"
Lonely was much better than alone.
-Toni Morrison
"The Bluest Eye"
I felt very lonely when they were all there.
-Ernest Hemingway
"A Farewell to Arms"
What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
-George Eliot
I had gotten so used to being alone, but never entirely used to it. Never used to it enough to stop wanting the alternative.
-David Levithan
"Every You, Every Me"
My sleep wasn't peaceful, though. I have the sense of emerging from a world of dark, haunted places where I traveled alone.
-Suzanne Collins
"Mockingjay"
