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
Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than to be in bad company.
-Booker T. Washington
All great and precious things are lonely.
-John Steinbeck
"East of Eden"
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"
It would be too easy to say that I feel invisible. Instead, I feel painfully visible, and entirely ignored.
-David Levithan
"Every Day"
What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one's self?
-Henrik Ibsen
Solitude is fine but you need someone to tellyou that solitude is fine.
-Honoré De Balzac
Loneliness isn’t a lack of people. It is a lack of understanding and acceptance.
-Bronnie Ware
I have no privacy. But I feel so alone.
-Susan Beth Pfeffer
"Life As We Knew It"
Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.
-Woody Allen
