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"
Quotations
Loneliness
Be good and you will be lonesome.
-Mark Twain
"Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World"
Over time, loneliness gets inside you and doesn't go away.
-Carlos Ruiz Zafón
"The Angel's Game"
Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.
-Douglas Coupland
"Shampoo Planet"
Learning from other people's mistakes is better than making your own. And it is easier to live lonely than to have a broken heart.
-Aria Adams
"Reminiscence"
The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with the present.
-Alan Lightman
"Einstein's Dreams"
Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
-John Steinbeck
"Of Mice and Men"
Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.
-Woody Allen
Don’t try to hog loneliness and keep it all to yourself. Share it with a special someone.
-Jarod Kintz
"The Titanic would never have sunk if it were made out of a sink"
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"
