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"
Quotations
Loneliness
The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!
-Edith Wharton
"The Age of Innocence"
What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
-George Eliot
Solitude is where one discovers one is not alone.
-Marty Rubin
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"
All great and precious things are lonely.
-John Steinbeck
"East of Eden"
If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.
-Aldous Huxley
"Brave New World"
Even if you are alone you wage war with yourself.
-Dejan Stojanović
