All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart.
-Tahereh Mafi
"Shatter Me"
Quotations
Loneliness
Because, once alone, it is impossible to believe that one could ever have been otherwise. Loneliness is an absolute discovery.
-Marilynne Robinson
"Housekeeping"
ut there are other words for privacy and independence. They are isolation and loneliness.
-Megan Whalen Turner
"The King of Attolia"
Even if you are alone you wage war with yourself.
-Dejan Stojanović
Companionship is a foreign concept to some people. They fear it as much as the majority of people fear loneliness.
-Criss Jami
People who do a job that claims to be creative have to be alone to recharge their batteries. You can’t live 24 hours a day in the spotlight and remain creative. For people like me, solitude is a victory.
-Karl Lagerfeld
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
-Mother Teresa
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"
We hear only our own voices, still echoes returning to our emptiness.
-Dejan Stojanović
It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.
-Albert Einstein
