Quotations
Loneliness
The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with the present.
- Alan Lightman
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
- Mother Teresa
Though we longed not to be lonely, we also feared the pain it would take us to be brought out of our lonely states. And after that fear, could we be guaranteed that we would never be returned to a state of loneliness again? We could not.
- Edward Carey
The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Companionship is a foreign concept to some people. They fear it as much as the majority of people fear loneliness.
- Criss Jami
Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than to be in bad company.
- Booker T. Washington
I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
- Henry David Thoreau
Perhaps only people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the universe. The others have a certain stickiness, they stick to the mass.
- D. H. Lawrence
Solitude is where one discovers one is not alone.
- Marty Rubin
Loneliness is the prison of the human spirit. When we are lonely, we pace back and forth in small, shut-in worlds.
- John Powell
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