Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
-Mother Teresa
Quotations
Loneliness
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"
The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely.
-Charlotte Brontë
If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.
-Jean Paul Sartre
If you smile when you are alone, then you really mean it.
-Andy Rooney
Thirsty for attention is a cry of loneliness.
-Toba Beta
"My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut"
Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.
-Arthur C. Clarke
We live as we dream--Alone.
-Joseph Conrad
"Heart of Darkness"
Because, once alone, it is impossible to believe that one could ever have been otherwise. Loneliness is an absolute discovery.
-Marilynne Robinson
"Housekeeping"
All great and precious things are lonely.
-John Steinbeck
"East of Eden"
