Language... has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.
-Paul Johannes Tillich
"The Eternal Now"
Quotations
Loneliness
Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.
-Lawrence Durrell
Loneliness is the standard that separates life from death.
-Sorin Cerin
"Wisdom Collection: The Book of Wisdom"
All great and precious things are lonely.
-John Steinbeck
"East of Eden"
What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one's self?
-Henrik Ibsen
Novelty is a new kind of loneliness.
-Wendell Berry
Companionship is a foreign concept to some people. They fear it as much as the majority of people fear loneliness.
-Criss Jami
It would be too easy to say that I feel invisible. Instead, I feel painfully visible, and entirely ignored.
-David Levithan
"Every Day"
To be alone is to be different, to be different is to be alone.
-Suzanne Gordon
ut there are other words for privacy and independence. They are isolation and loneliness.
-Megan Whalen Turner
"The King of Attolia"
