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
Sometimes being surrounded by everyone is the loneliest, because you'll realise you have no one to turn to.
-Soraya
It would be too easy to say that I feel invisible. Instead, I feel painfully visible, and entirely ignored.
-David Levithan
"Every Day"
All great and precious things are lonely.
-John Steinbeck
"East of Eden"
We hear only our own voices, still echoes returning to our emptiness.
-Dejan Stojanović
Solitude is where one discovers one is not alone.
-Marty Rubin
Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is richness of self.
-May Sarton
Man’s loneliness is but his fear of life.
-Eugene O'Neill
