Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
-Mother Teresa
Quotations
Loneliness
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"
I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
-Henry David Thoreau
If you smile when you are alone, then you really mean it.
-Andy Rooney
There is the solitude of suffering, when you go through darkness that is lonely, intense, and terrible. Words become powerless to express your pain; what others hear from your words is so distant and different from what you are actually suffering.
- John O'donohue
"Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom"
Be good and you will be lonesome.
-Mark Twain
"Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World"
My sleep wasn't peaceful, though. I have the sense of emerging from a world of dark, haunted places where I traveled alone.
-Suzanne Collins
"Mockingjay"
Even the company of the mad was better than the company of the dead.
-Stephen King
"The Stand"
We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community.
-Dorothy Day
"The Long Loneliness: The Autobiography of the Legendary Catholic Social Activist"
I need the pain of loneliness to make my imagination work.
-Orhan Pamuk
