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
To be alone is to be different, to be different is to be alone.
-Suzanne Gordon
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"
Being alone never felt right. Sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.
-Charles Bukowski
"Women"
Loneliness is the standard that separates life from death.
-Sorin Cerin
"Wisdom Collection: The Book of Wisdom"
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
-Mother Teresa
It's weird to feel like you miss someone you're not even sure you know.
-David Foster Wallace
"Infinite Jest"
I felt very lonely when they were all there.
-Ernest Hemingway
"A Farewell to Arms"
We live as we dream--Alone.
-Joseph Conrad
"Heart of Darkness"
What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
-George Eliot
