Companionship is a foreign concept to some people. They fear it as much as the majority of people fear loneliness.
-Criss Jami
Quotations
Loneliness
Solitude is fine but you need someone to tellyou that solitude is fine.
-Honoré De Balzac
If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right.
-Jules Renard
What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one's self?
-Henrik Ibsen
ut there are other words for privacy and independence. They are isolation and loneliness.
-Megan Whalen Turner
"The King of Attolia"
Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than to be in bad company.
-Booker T. Washington
I felt very lonely when they were all there.
-Ernest Hemingway
"A Farewell to Arms"
Novelty is a new kind of loneliness.
-Wendell Berry
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"
Though we longed not to be lonely, we also feared the pain it would take us to be brought out of our lonely states. And after that fear, could we be guaranteed that we would never be returned to a state of loneliness again? We could not.
-Edward Carey
"Observatory Mansions"
