The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!
-Edith Wharton
"The Age of Innocence"
Quotations
Loneliness
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
-Mother Teresa
I'll never forget how the depression and loneliness felt good and bad at the same time. Still does.
-Henry Rollins
"The Portable Henry Rollins"
What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
-George Eliot
Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.
-Woody Allen
Solitude is fine but you need someone to tellyou that solitude is fine.
-Honoré De Balzac
People who do a job that claims to be creative have to be alone to recharge their batteries. You can’t live 24 hours a day in the spotlight and remain creative. For people like me, solitude is a victory.
-Karl Lagerfeld
The loneliness you feel with another person, the wrong person, is the loneliest of all.
-Deb Caletti
"The Fortunes of Indigo Skye"
I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
-Henry David Thoreau
Being alone never felt right. Sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.
-Charles Bukowski
"Women"
