The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with the present.
-Alan Lightman
"Einstein's Dreams"
Quotations
Loneliness
Companionship is a foreign concept to some people. They fear it as much as the majority of people fear loneliness.
-Criss Jami
Even if you are alone you wage war with yourself.
-Dejan Stojanović
It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.
-Albert Einstein
Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than to be in bad company.
-Booker T. Washington
I had gotten so used to being alone, but never entirely used to it. Never used to it enough to stop wanting the alternative.
-David Levithan
"Every You, Every Me"
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"
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"
There is the solitude of suffering, when you go through darkness that is lonely, intense, and terrible. Words become powerless to express your pain; what others hear from your words is so distant and different from what you are actually suffering.
- John O'donohue
"Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom"
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"
