Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.
-Woody Allen
Quotations
Loneliness
I felt very lonely when they were all there.
-Ernest Hemingway
"A Farewell to Arms"
Don’t try to hog loneliness and keep it all to yourself. Share it with a special someone.
-Jarod Kintz
"The Titanic would never have sunk if it were made out of a sink"
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"
Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is richness of self.
-May Sarton
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 love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
-Henry David Thoreau
Being alone never felt right. Sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.
-Charles Bukowski
"Women"
I am lonely, sometimes, but I dare say it's good for me.
-Louisa May Alcott
"Little Women"
Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than to be in bad company.
-Booker T. Washington
