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"
Quotations
Loneliness
If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.
-Jean Paul Sartre
The loneliness you feel with another person, the wrong person, is the loneliest of all.
-Deb Caletti
"The Fortunes of Indigo Skye"
ut there are other words for privacy and independence. They are isolation and loneliness.
-Megan Whalen Turner
"The King of Attolia"
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"
You cannot be lonely if you like the person you’re alone with.
-Wayne W. Dyer
Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.
-Lawrence Durrell
Man’s loneliness is but his fear of life.
-Eugene O'Neill
Even the company of the mad was better than the company of the dead.
-Stephen King
"The Stand"
Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
-John Steinbeck
"Of Mice and Men"
