Novelty is a new kind of loneliness.
-Wendell Berry
Quotations
Loneliness
The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely.
-Charlotte Brontë
You cannot be lonely if you like the person you’re alone with.
-Wayne W. Dyer
All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart.
-Tahereh Mafi
"Shatter Me"
Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is richness of self.
-May Sarton
As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.
-Maya Angelou
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"
To be alone is to be different, to be different is to be alone.
-Suzanne Gordon
If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right.
-Jules Renard
The sun is such a lonely star. Whenever he comes out to see his friends, they all disappear.
-Joseph Gordon Levitt
"The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories: Volume 1"
