We live as we dream--Alone.
-Joseph Conrad
"Heart of Darkness"
Quotations
Loneliness
There is the solitude of suffering, when you go through darkness that is lonely, intense, and terrible. Words become powerless to express your pain; what others hear from your words is so distant and different from what you are actually suffering.
- John O'donohue
"Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom"
Companionship is a foreign concept to some people. They fear it as much as the majority of people fear loneliness.
-Criss Jami
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"
What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
-George Eliot
To be alone is to be different, to be different is to be alone.
-Suzanne Gordon
Even if you are alone you wage war with yourself.
-Dejan Stojanović
We hear only our own voices, still echoes returning to our emptiness.
-Dejan Stojanović
When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
-Tennessee Williams
"Camino Real"
Lonely was much better than alone.
-Toni Morrison
"The Bluest Eye"
