Quotations
Loneliness
Because, once alone, it is impossible to believe that one could ever have been otherwise. Loneliness is an absolute discovery.
- Marilynne Robinson
Companionship is a foreign concept to some people. They fear it as much as the majority of people fear loneliness.
- Criss Jami
Be good and you will be lonesome.
- Mark Twain
Perhaps only people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the universe. The others have a certain stickiness, they stick to the mass.
- D. H. Lawrence
Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is richness of self.
- May Sarton
If you smile when you are alone, then you really mean it.
- Andy Rooney
Even if you are alone you wage war with yourself.
- Dejan Stojanović
Nobody can discover the world for somebody else. Only when we discover it for ourselves does it become common ground and a common bond and we cease to be alone.
- Wendell Berry
Sometimes being surrounded by everyone is the loneliest, because you'll realise you have no one to turn to.
- Soraya
Loneliness isn’t a lack of people. It is a lack of understanding and acceptance.
- Bronnie Ware