We hear only our own voices, still echoes returning to our emptiness.
-Dejan Stojanović
Quotations
Loneliness
Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.
-Woody Allen
There is the solitude of suffering, when you go through darkness that is lonely, intense, and terrible. Words become powerless to express your pain; what others hear from your words is so distant and different from what you are actually suffering.
- John O'donohue
"Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom"
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"
If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.
-Jean Paul Sartre
Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.
-Douglas Coupland
"Shampoo Planet"
Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than to be in bad company.
-Booker T. Washington
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
-Mother Teresa
Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is richness of self.
-May Sarton
