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"
Quotations
Loneliness
Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.
-Lawrence Durrell
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"
To be alone is to be different, to be different is to be alone.
-Suzanne Gordon
It's weird to feel like you miss someone you're not even sure you know.
-David Foster Wallace
"Infinite Jest"
A lonely day is God's way of saying that he wants to spend some quality time with you.
-Criss Jami
It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.
-Albert Einstein
Perhaps only people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the universe. The others have a certain stickiness, they stick to the mass.
-D. H. Lawrence
"Lady Chatterley's Lover"
Don’t try to hog loneliness and keep it all to yourself. Share it with a special someone.
-Jarod Kintz
"The Titanic would never have sunk if it were made out of a sink"
If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.
-Aldous Huxley
"Brave New World"
