Quotations
Loneliness
What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one's self?
- Henrik Ibsen
Over time, loneliness gets inside you and doesn't go away.
- Carlos Ruiz Zafón
All great and precious things are lonely.
- John Steinbeck
Loneliness is the unloneliest feeling in the world, as everyone has experienced it.
- Jarod Kintz
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
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
The loneliness you feel with another person, the wrong person, is the loneliest of all.
- Deb Caletti
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
When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
- Tennessee Williams
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