“All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.”
Jean de la Bruyere
“I feel as if I could sing and hear music forever. Possibly that's a reason why I feel so lonely most of all the time.”
Tommy Polo
“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