“Being someone is being one alone. Being someone is loneliness.”

Ser alguien es ser alguien solo. Ser alguien es soledad.
Voces (1943)

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Antonio Porchia276

Italian Argentinian poet 1885–1968

John Berendt book The City of Falling Angels

Source: The City of Falling Angels

“When I meet someone I like being with more than I like being alone, I'll marry her.”

Emily Giffin (1972) American writer

“Language has created the word “loneliness” to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word “solitude” to express the glory of being alone.”

Paul Tillich (1886–1965) German-American theologian and philosopher

Source: The Eternal Now

“Our language has wisely sensed these two sides of man’s being alone. It has created the word “loneliness” to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word “solitude” to express the glory of being alone.”

Paul Tillich (1886–1965) German-American theologian and philosopher

Source: The Eternal Now

“Being misunderstood by someone is vexation. Being misunderstood by everyone is tragedy.”

Liu Shahe (1931–2019) Chinese writer and poet

Encarta http://encarta.msn.com/quote_561556245/Understanding_Being_misunderstood_by_someone_is_vexation.html

“If there was one thing worse than being cheated, it was being cheated by someone who referred to themselves in the third person.”

Chris Wooding (1977) British children's writer

Source: The Iron Jackal

“Death doesn't just take someone, it misses someone else, and in the small distance between being taken and being missed, lives are changed.”

Mitch Albom (1958) American author

The Five People You Meet in Heaven (2003)
Variant: It is because the spirit knows deep down that all lives intersect. That death doesn't just take someone, it misses someone else. And in that small distance, lives are changed.
Source: The Five People You Meet in Heaven - Meniti Bianglala