ut there are other words for privacy and independence. They are isolation and loneliness.
-Megan Whalen Turner
"The King of Attolia"
Quotations
Loneliness
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"
If you smile when you are alone, then you really mean it.
-Andy Rooney
Over time, loneliness gets inside you and doesn't go away.
-Carlos Ruiz Zafón
"The Angel's Game"
Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.
-Lawrence Durrell
Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than to be in bad company.
-Booker T. Washington
If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right.
-Jules Renard
What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one's self?
-Henrik Ibsen
Sometimes being surrounded by everyone is the loneliest, because you'll realise you have no one to turn to.
-Soraya
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"
