Loneliness isn’t a lack of people. It is a lack of understanding and acceptance.
-Bronnie Ware
Quotations
Loneliness
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
-Mother Teresa
It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.
-Albert Einstein
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 worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.
-Lois Lowry
"The Giver"
Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.
-Douglas Coupland
"Shampoo Planet"
Man’s loneliness is but his fear of life.
-Eugene O'Neill
I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
-Henry David Thoreau
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"
What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one's self?
-Henrik Ibsen
