When we cannot bear to be alone, it means we do not properly value the only companion we will have from birth to death - ourselves.
-Eda LeShan
Quotations
Loneliness
If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right.
-Jules Renard
I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
-Henry David Thoreau
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"
When we are most alone is when we embrace another's loneliness.
-Mitch Albom
"The Time Keeper"
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
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
-Mother Teresa
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"
If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.
-Jean Paul Sartre
What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one's self?
-Henrik Ibsen
