Companionship is a foreign concept to some people. They fear it as much as the majority of people fear loneliness.
-Criss Jami
Quotations
Loneliness
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"
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
As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.
-Maya Angelou
All great and precious things are lonely.
-John Steinbeck
"East of Eden"
Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.
-Woody Allen
If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.
-Jean Paul Sartre
We hear only our own voices, still echoes returning to our emptiness.
-Dejan Stojanović
You cannot be lonely if you like the person you’re alone with.
-Wayne W. Dyer
