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
We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community.
-Dorothy Day
"The Long Loneliness: The Autobiography of the Legendary Catholic Social Activist"
Even if you are alone you wage war with yourself.
-Dejan Stojanović
We live as we dream--Alone.
-Joseph Conrad
"Heart of Darkness"
Even the company of the mad was better than the company of the dead.
-Stephen King
"The Stand"
I need the pain of loneliness to make my imagination work.
-Orhan Pamuk
Solitude is fine but you need someone to tellyou that solitude is fine.
-Honoré De Balzac
Man’s loneliness is but his fear of life.
-Eugene O'Neill
The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!
-Edith Wharton
"The Age of Innocence"
Over time, loneliness gets inside you and doesn't go away.
-Carlos Ruiz Zafón
"The Angel's Game"
