Solitude is fine but you need someone to tellyou that solitude is fine.
-Honoré De Balzac
Quotations
Loneliness
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"
Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.
-Henry Rollins
Even the company of the mad was better than the company of the dead.
-Stephen King
"The Stand"
My sleep wasn't peaceful, though. I have the sense of emerging from a world of dark, haunted places where I traveled alone.
-Suzanne Collins
"Mockingjay"
It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.
-Albert Einstein
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"
Novelty is a new kind of loneliness.
-Wendell Berry
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"
To be alone is to be different, to be different is to be alone.
-Suzanne Gordon
