If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.
-Aldous Huxley
"Brave New World"
Quotations
Loneliness
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
-Mother Teresa
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
There is the solitude of suffering, when you go through darkness that is lonely, intense, and terrible. Words become powerless to express your pain; what others hear from your words is so distant and different from what you are actually suffering.
- John O'donohue
"Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom"
A lonely day is God's way of saying that he wants to spend some quality time with you.
-Criss Jami
All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart.
-Tahereh Mafi
"Shatter Me"
Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is richness of self.
-May Sarton
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"
