It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.
-Albert Einstein
Quotations
Loneliness
I am lonely, sometimes, but I dare say it's good for me.
-Louisa May Alcott
"Little Women"
Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than to be in bad company.
-Booker T. Washington
Nobody can discover the world for somebody else. Only when we discover it for ourselves does it become common ground and a common bond and we cease to be alone.
-Wendell Berry
"A Place on Earth"
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"
If you smile when you are alone, then you really mean it.
-Andy Rooney
Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is richness of self.
-May Sarton
Loneliness is the standard that separates life from death.
-Sorin Cerin
"Wisdom Collection: The Book of Wisdom"
What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one's self?
-Henrik Ibsen
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
-Mother Teresa
