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
As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.
-Maya Angelou
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"
What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one's self?
-Henrik Ibsen
I am lonely, sometimes, but I dare say it's good for me.
-Louisa May Alcott
"Little Women"
Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than to be in bad company.
-Booker T. Washington
Companionship is a foreign concept to some people. They fear it as much as the majority of people fear loneliness.
-Criss Jami
Man’s loneliness is but his fear of life.
-Eugene O'Neill
