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"
Quotations
Loneliness
Loneliness is the prison of the human spirit. When we are lonely, we pace back and forth in small, shut-in worlds.
-John Powell
"Will the Real Me Please Stand Up?: 25 Guidelines for Good Communication"
ut there are other words for privacy and independence. They are isolation and loneliness.
-Megan Whalen Turner
"The King of Attolia"
We hear only our own voices, still echoes returning to our emptiness.
-Dejan Stojanović
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"
Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is richness of self.
-May Sarton
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
-Mother Teresa
When we cannot bear to be alone, it means we do not properly value the only companion we will have from birth to death - ourselves.
-Eda LeShan
To be alone is to be different, to be different is to be alone.
-Suzanne Gordon
What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
-George Eliot
