Because, once alone, it is impossible to believe that one could ever have been otherwise. Loneliness is an absolute discovery.
-Marilynne Robinson
"Housekeeping"
Quotations
Loneliness
Loneliness is the standard that separates life from death.
-Sorin Cerin
"Wisdom Collection: The Book of Wisdom"
Novelty is a new kind of loneliness.
-Wendell Berry
My sleep wasn't peaceful, though. I have the sense of emerging from a world of dark, haunted places where I traveled alone.
-Suzanne Collins
"Mockingjay"
Man’s loneliness is but his fear of life.
-Eugene O'Neill
To be alone is to be different, to be different is to be alone.
-Suzanne Gordon
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 Johannes Tillich
"The Eternal Now"
I felt very lonely when they were all there.
-Ernest Hemingway
"A Farewell to Arms"
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
"A Place on Earth"
Solitude is fine but you need someone to tellyou that solitude is fine.
-Honoré De Balzac
