ut there are other words for privacy and independence. They are isolation and loneliness.
-Megan Whalen Turner
"The King of Attolia"
Quotations
Loneliness
Companionship is a foreign concept to some people. They fear it as much as the majority of people fear loneliness.
-Criss Jami
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"
My sleep wasn't peaceful, though. I have the sense of emerging from a world of dark, haunted places where I traveled alone.
-Suzanne Collins
"Mockingjay"
We hear only our own voices, still echoes returning to our emptiness.
-Dejan Stojanović
The sun is such a lonely star. Whenever he comes out to see his friends, they all disappear.
-Joseph Gordon Levitt
"The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories: Volume 1"
Lonely was much better than alone.
-Toni Morrison
"The Bluest Eye"
Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
-John Steinbeck
"Of Mice and Men"
Loneliness isn’t a lack of people. It is a lack of understanding and acceptance.
-Bronnie Ware
A lonely day is God's way of saying that he wants to spend some quality time with you.
-Criss Jami
