When we are most alone is when we embrace another's loneliness.
-Mitch Albom
"The Time Keeper"
Quotations
Loneliness
Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is richness of self.
-May Sarton
All great and precious things are lonely.
-John Steinbeck
"East of Eden"
Nobody can discover the world for somebody else. Only when we discover it for ourselves does it become common ground and a common bond and we cease to be alone.
-Wendell Berry
"A Place on Earth"
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
-Mother Teresa
The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.
-Lois Lowry
"The Giver"
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"
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"
The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely.
-Charlotte Brontë
I have no privacy. But I feel so alone.
-Susan Beth Pfeffer
"Life As We Knew It"
