Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
-Mother Teresa
Quotations
Loneliness
Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than to be in bad company.
-Booker T. Washington
Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.
-Henry Rollins
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"
Even if you are alone you wage war with yourself.
-Dejan Stojanović
Even the company of the mad was better than the company of the dead.
-Stephen King
"The Stand"
I am lonely, sometimes, but I dare say it's good for me.
-Louisa May Alcott
"Little Women"
The loneliness you feel with another person, the wrong person, is the loneliest of all.
-Deb Caletti
"The Fortunes of Indigo Skye"
Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books written because authors couldn't find anyone to talk to.
-Alain De Botton
"The Consolations of Philosophy"
I felt very lonely when they were all there.
-Ernest Hemingway
"A Farewell to Arms"
