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"
Quotations
Loneliness
Loneliness is the prison of the human spirit. When we are lonely, we pace back and forth in small, shut-in worlds.
-John Powell
"Will the Real Me Please Stand Up?: 25 Guidelines for Good Communication"
Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.
-Lawrence Durrell
If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.
-Jean Paul Sartre
Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
-John Steinbeck
"Of Mice and Men"
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
-Mother Teresa
Perhaps only people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the universe. The others have a certain stickiness, they stick to the mass.
-D. H. Lawrence
"Lady Chatterley's Lover"
I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
-Henry David Thoreau
ut there are other words for privacy and independence. They are isolation and loneliness.
-Megan Whalen Turner
"The King of Attolia"
What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one's self?
-Henrik Ibsen
