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 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"
Novelty is a new kind of loneliness.
-Wendell Berry
I am lonely, sometimes, but I dare say it's good for me.
-Louisa May Alcott
"Little Women"
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
-Mother Teresa
To be alone is to be different, to be different is to be alone.
-Suzanne Gordon
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
Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books written because authors couldn't find anyone to talk to.
-Alain De Botton
"The Consolations of Philosophy"
