“The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness.”
Norman Cousins
“We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.”
Orson Welles
“The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.”
Mother Teresa of Calcutta
“What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?”
T.S. Eliot
“Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.”
Dag Hammarskjold
“Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.”
Maya Angelou
“What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear.”
