What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one's self?
-Henrik Ibsen
Quotations
Loneliness
ut there are other words for privacy and independence. They are isolation and loneliness.
-Megan Whalen Turner
"The King of Attolia"
I need the pain of loneliness to make my imagination work.
-Orhan Pamuk
Even the company of the mad was better than the company of the dead.
-Stephen King
"The Stand"
The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.
-F. Scott Fitzgerald
"The Great Gatsby"
We hear only our own voices, still echoes returning to our emptiness.
-Dejan Stojanović
It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.
-Albert Einstein
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
"Lady Chatterley's Lover"
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"
The loneliness you feel with another person, the wrong person, is the loneliest of all.
-Deb Caletti
"The Fortunes of Indigo Skye"
