Loneliness
People are often lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.
--Anonymous
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being.
His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks
away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other
inspiration.
--Pearl S. Buck
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
-- Mother Theresa
Man has no choice but to love. For when he does not, he finds his alternatives
lie in loneliness, destruction and despair.
--Leo Buscaglia
You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.
--Wayne Dyer
There is none more lonely than the man who loves only himself.
--Abraham Ibn Esra
It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the
beauty of loneliness and of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of
disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature, and
everlasting beauty of monotony.
--Benjamin Britten
Only in a house where one has learnt to be lonely does one have this
solicitude for things. One's relation to them, the daily seeing or touching,
begins to become love, and to lay one open to pain.
--Elizabeth Bowen
Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity
with someone who has ceased to communicate.
--Germaine Greer
People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.
--Joseph Fort Newton
When people are lonely they stoop to any companionship.
--Lew Wallace
