Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
-Mother Teresa
Quotations
Loneliness
When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
-Tennessee Williams
"Camino Real"
Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than to be in bad company.
-Booker T. Washington
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"
Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.
-Woody Allen
I need the pain of loneliness to make my imagination work.
-Orhan Pamuk
Companionship is a foreign concept to some people. They fear it as much as the majority of people fear loneliness.
-Criss Jami
Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.
-Henry Rollins
If you smile when you are alone, then you really mean it.
-Andy Rooney
If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right.
-Jules Renard
