Because, once alone, it is impossible to believe that one could ever have been otherwise. Loneliness is an absolute discovery.
-Marilynne Robinson
"Housekeeping"
Quotations
Loneliness
I need the pain of loneliness to make my imagination work.
-Orhan Pamuk
ut there are other words for privacy and independence. They are isolation and loneliness.
-Megan Whalen Turner
"The King of Attolia"
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"
Thirsty for attention is a cry of loneliness.
-Toba Beta
"My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut"
Only on the Internet can a person be lonely and popular at the same time.
-Allison Burnett
"Undiscovered Gyrl"
I felt very lonely when they were all there.
-Ernest Hemingway
"A Farewell to Arms"
We hear only our own voices, still echoes returning to our emptiness.
-Dejan Stojanović
Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.
-Woody Allen
Even if you are alone you wage war with yourself.
-Dejan Stojanović
