Language... has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.
-Paul Johannes Tillich
"The Eternal Now"
Quotations
Loneliness
It would be too easy to say that I feel invisible. Instead, I feel painfully visible, and entirely ignored.
-David Levithan
"Every Day"
I have no privacy. But I feel so alone.
-Susan Beth Pfeffer
"Life As We Knew It"
If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.
-Aldous Huxley
"Brave New World"
When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
-Tennessee Williams
"Camino Real"
Solitude is where one discovers one is not alone.
-Marty Rubin
To be alone is to be different, to be different is to be alone.
-Suzanne Gordon
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
-Mother Teresa
Only on the Internet can a person be lonely and popular at the same time.
-Allison Burnett
"Undiscovered Gyrl"
Loneliness is the standard that separates life from death.
-Sorin Cerin
"Wisdom Collection: The Book of Wisdom"
