I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
-Henry David Thoreau
Quotations
Loneliness
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"
You cannot be lonely if you like the person you’re alone with.
-Wayne W. Dyer
Though we longed not to be lonely, we also feared the pain it would take us to be brought out of our lonely states. And after that fear, could we be guaranteed that we would never be returned to a state of loneliness again? We could not.
-Edward Carey
"Observatory Mansions"
Novelty is a new kind of loneliness.
-Wendell Berry
Even the company of the mad was better than the company of the dead.
-Stephen King
"The Stand"
Be good and you will be lonesome.
-Mark Twain
"Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World"
It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.
-Albert Einstein
All great and precious things are lonely.
-John Steinbeck
"East of Eden"
Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.
-Arthur C. Clarke
