15 quotes
“Language has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone, and the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.”
— Paul Tillich
“The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself.”
— Mark Twain
“I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness the astonishing light of your own being that leads to peace.”
— Hafiz
“If you are lonely when you are alone you are in bad company”
— Jean-Paul Sartre
“The great omission in American life is solitude; not loneliness, for this is an alienation that thrives most in the midst of crowds, but that zone of time and space free from the outside pressures.”
— Marya Mannes
“Language has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone and solitude to express the glory”
“I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness the astonishing light of your own wonder”
“We are all lonely for something we do not know or cannot name but wonder brings us closer to it”
— Alan Lightman
“We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is compassion and community”
— Dorothy Day
“Language has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone and the word solitude to express the glory of being alone”
“The thing that makes you exceptional if you are at all is inevitably that which must also make you lonely”
— Joni Mitchell
“A great fire burns within me, but no one stops to warm themselves at it, and passers-by only see a wisp of smoke.”
— Vincent van Gogh
“If you are lonely when you are alone, you are in bad company.”
“I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness the astonishing light of your own being.”
“You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.”
— Wayne Dyer
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