Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is richness of self.
-May Sarton
Quotations
Loneliness
Some people are just not meant to be in this world. It's just too much for them.
-Phoebe Steon
"The Boy on Cinnamon Street"
The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.
-F. Scott Fitzgerald
"The Great Gatsby"
Be good and you will be lonesome.
-Mark Twain
"Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World"
Though we longed not to be lonely, we also feared the pain it would take us to be brought out of our lonely states. And after that fear, could we be guaranteed that we would never be returned to a state of loneliness again? We could not.
-Edward Carey
"Observatory Mansions"
Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.
-Woody Allen
I have no privacy. But I feel so alone.
-Susan Beth Pfeffer
"Life As We Knew It"
If you smile when you are alone, then you really mean it.
-Andy Rooney
We hear only our own voices, still echoes returning to our emptiness.
-Dejan Stojanović
Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.
-Lawrence Durrell
