It's weird to feel like you miss someone you're not even sure you know.
-David Foster Wallace
"Infinite Jest"
Quotations
Loneliness
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"
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
Over time, loneliness gets inside you and doesn't go away.
-Carlos Ruiz Zafón
"The Angel's Game"
What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
-George Eliot
Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is richness of self.
-May Sarton
Some people are just not meant to be in this world. It's just too much for them.
-Phoebe Steon
"The Boy on Cinnamon Street"
Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.
-Henry Rollins
If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.
-Aldous Huxley
"Brave New World"
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
-Mother Teresa
