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
Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is richness of self.
-May Sarton
We live as we dream--Alone.
-Joseph Conrad
"Heart of Darkness"
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
Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.
-Arthur C. Clarke
It would be too easy to say that I feel invisible. Instead, I feel painfully visible, and entirely ignored.
-David Levithan
"Every Day"
To be alone is to be different, to be different is to be alone.
-Suzanne Gordon
Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.
-Lawrence Durrell
Novelty is a new kind of loneliness.
-Wendell Berry
All great and precious things are lonely.
-John Steinbeck
"East of Eden"
