“Reading - the best state yet to keep absolute loneliness at bay.”
William Styron
“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
“Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.”
Maya Angelou
“Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.”
Dag Hammarskjold
“What if a demon were to creep after you one night, in your loneliest loneliness, and say, 'This life which you live must be lived by you once again and innumerable times more; and every pain and joy and thought and sigh must come again to you, all in the same sequence. The eternal hourglass will again and again be turned and you with it, dust of the dust!' Would you throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse that demon? Or would you answer, 'Never have I heard anything more divine'?”
Friedrich Nietzsche
