Novelty is a new kind of loneliness.
-Wendell Berry
Quotations
Loneliness
It would be too easy to say that I feel invisible. Instead, I feel painfully visible, and entirely ignored.
-David Levithan
"Every Day"
I felt very lonely when they were all there.
-Ernest Hemingway
"A Farewell to Arms"
Be good and you will be lonesome.
-Mark Twain
"Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World"
I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
-Henry David Thoreau
All great and precious things are lonely.
-John Steinbeck
"East of Eden"
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"
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"
Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.
-Douglas Coupland
"Shampoo Planet"
What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one's self?
-Henrik Ibsen
