Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
-Mother Teresa
Quotations
Loneliness
Even the company of the mad was better than the company of the dead.
-Stephen King
"The Stand"
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
When we are most alone is when we embrace another's loneliness.
-Mitch Albom
"The Time Keeper"
Loneliness isn’t a lack of people. It is a lack of understanding and acceptance.
-Bronnie Ware
It would be too easy to say that I feel invisible. Instead, I feel painfully visible, and entirely ignored.
-David Levithan
"Every Day"
Novelty is a new kind of loneliness.
-Wendell Berry
What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one's self?
-Henrik Ibsen
Man’s loneliness is but his fear of life.
-Eugene O'Neill
Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
-John Steinbeck
"Of Mice and Men"
