Companionship is a foreign concept to some people. They fear it as much as the majority of people fear loneliness.
-Criss Jami
Quotations
Loneliness
Loneliness isn’t a lack of people. It is a lack of understanding and acceptance.
-Bronnie Ware
We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community.
-Dorothy Day
"The Long Loneliness: The Autobiography of the Legendary Catholic Social Activist"
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
When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
-Tennessee Williams
"Camino Real"
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
"Observatory Mansions"
Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.
-Lawrence Durrell
I need the pain of loneliness to make my imagination work.
-Orhan Pamuk
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
-Mother Teresa
What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
-George Eliot
