Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is richness of self.
-May Sarton
Quotations
Loneliness
ut there are other words for privacy and independence. They are isolation and loneliness.
-Megan Whalen Turner
"The King of Attolia"
Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.
-Douglas Coupland
"Shampoo Planet"
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
-Mother Teresa
I have no privacy. But I feel so alone.
-Susan Beth Pfeffer
"Life As We Knew It"
The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.
-F. Scott Fitzgerald
"The Great Gatsby"
The loneliness you feel with another person, the wrong person, is the loneliest of all.
-Deb Caletti
"The Fortunes of Indigo Skye"
We live as we dream--Alone.
-Joseph Conrad
"Heart of Darkness"
Though we longed not to be lonely, we also feared the pain it would take us to be brought out of our lonely states. And after that fear, could we be guaranteed that we would never be returned to a state of loneliness again? We could not.
-Edward Carey
"Observatory Mansions"
I need the pain of loneliness to make my imagination work.
-Orhan Pamuk
