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"
Quotations
Loneliness
If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right.
-Jules Renard
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"
We hear only our own voices, still echoes returning to our emptiness.
-Dejan Stojanović
Some people are just not meant to be in this world. It's just too much for them.
-Phoebe Steon
"The Boy on Cinnamon Street"
Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.
-Lawrence Durrell
You cannot be lonely if you like the person you’re alone with.
-Wayne W. Dyer
Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books written because authors couldn't find anyone to talk to.
-Alain De Botton
"The Consolations of Philosophy"
When we are most alone is when we embrace another's loneliness.
-Mitch Albom
"The Time Keeper"
What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
-George Eliot
