Sometimes being surrounded by everyone is the loneliest, because you'll realise you have no one to turn to.
-Soraya
Quotations
Loneliness
Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.
-Lawrence Durrell
I felt very lonely when they were all there.
-Ernest Hemingway
"A Farewell to Arms"
Solitude is where one discovers one is not alone.
-Marty Rubin
It would be too easy to say that I feel invisible. Instead, I feel painfully visible, and entirely ignored.
-David Levithan
"Every Day"
If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.
-Jean Paul Sartre
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"
The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely.
-Charlotte Brontë
Loneliness isn’t a lack of people. It is a lack of understanding and acceptance.
-Bronnie Ware
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"
