Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
-Mother Teresa
Quotations
Loneliness
I have no privacy. But I feel so alone.
-Susan Beth Pfeffer
"Life As We Knew It"
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"
It's weird to feel like you miss someone you're not even sure you know.
-David Foster Wallace
"Infinite Jest"
It's only natural to feel lonely after the enjoyable moments pass. But as you experience new joys those feelings of sorrow will start to fade.
-Mizu Sahara
I'll never forget how the depression and loneliness felt good and bad at the same time. Still does.
-Henry Rollins
"The Portable Henry Rollins"
Because, once alone, it is impossible to believe that one could ever have been otherwise. Loneliness is an absolute discovery.
-Marilynne Robinson
"Housekeeping"
Over time, loneliness gets inside you and doesn't go away.
-Carlos Ruiz Zafón
"The Angel's Game"
What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
-George Eliot
I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
-Henry David Thoreau
