Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
-Mother Teresa
Quotations
Loneliness
If you smile when you are alone, then you really mean it.
-Andy Rooney
Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is richness of self.
-May Sarton
All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart.
-Tahereh Mafi
"Shatter Me"
Some people are just not meant to be in this world. It's just too much for them.
-Phoebe Steon
"The Boy on Cinnamon Street"
It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.
-Albert Einstein
Loneliness isn’t a lack of people. It is a lack of understanding and acceptance.
-Bronnie Ware
If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.
-Jean Paul Sartre
Even the company of the mad was better than the company of the dead.
-Stephen King
"The Stand"
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"
