When we are most alone is when we embrace another's loneliness.
-Mitch Albom
"The Time Keeper"
Quotations
Loneliness
Though we longed not to be lonely, we also feared the pain it would take us to be brought out of our lonely states. And after that fear, could we be guaranteed that we would never be returned to a state of loneliness again? We could not.
-Edward Carey
"Observatory Mansions"
If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.
-Jean Paul Sartre
What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one's self?
-Henrik Ibsen
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
We live as we dream--Alone.
-Joseph Conrad
"Heart of Darkness"
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"
Novelty is a new kind of loneliness.
-Wendell Berry
