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
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"
We live as we dream--Alone.
-Joseph Conrad
"Heart of Darkness"
If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.
-Aldous Huxley
"Brave New World"
Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.
-Woody Allen
Solitude is where one discovers one is not alone.
-Marty Rubin
Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
-John Steinbeck
"Of Mice and Men"
When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
-Tennessee Williams
"Camino Real"
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"
We hear only our own voices, still echoes returning to our emptiness.
-Dejan Stojanović
