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"
Quotations
Loneliness
Even if you are alone you wage war with yourself.
-Dejan Stojanović
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"
I'll never forget how the depression and loneliness felt good and bad at the same time. Still does.
-Henry Rollins
"The Portable Henry Rollins"
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
Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.
-Lawrence Durrell
Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.
-Woody Allen
Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is richness of self.
-May Sarton
I felt very lonely when they were all there.
-Ernest Hemingway
"A Farewell to Arms"
Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.
-Arthur C. Clarke
