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"
Quotations
Loneliness
Because, once alone, it is impossible to believe that one could ever have been otherwise. Loneliness is an absolute discovery.
-Marilynne Robinson
"Housekeeping"
Novelty is a new kind of loneliness.
-Wendell Berry
Loneliness is the unloneliest feeling in the world, as everyone has experienced it.
-Jarod Kintz
"This Book is Not for Sale"
Solitude is fine but you need someone to tellyou that solitude is fine.
-Honoré De Balzac
Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is richness of self.
-May Sarton
Being alone never felt right. Sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.
-Charles Bukowski
"Women"
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"
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"
Man’s loneliness is but his fear of life.
-Eugene O'Neill
