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
What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
-George Eliot
Over time, loneliness gets inside you and doesn't go away.
-Carlos Ruiz Zafón
"The Angel's Game"
If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right.
-Jules Renard
Lonely was much better than alone.
-Toni Morrison
"The Bluest Eye"
We hear only our own voices, still echoes returning to our emptiness.
-Dejan Stojanović
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
"Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom"
When we are most alone is when we embrace another's loneliness.
-Mitch Albom
"The Time Keeper"
Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.
-Douglas Coupland
"Shampoo Planet"
Solitude is where one discovers one is not alone.
-Marty Rubin
