Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.
-Arthur C. Clarke
Quotations
Loneliness
When we cannot bear to be alone, it means we do not properly value the only companion we will have from birth to death - ourselves.
-Eda LeShan
Even if you are alone you wage war with yourself.
-Dejan Stojanović
Being alone never felt right. Sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.
-Charles Bukowski
"Women"
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
If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.
-Jean Paul Sartre
What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
-George Eliot
Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books written because authors couldn't find anyone to talk to.
-Alain De Botton
"The Consolations of Philosophy"
