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
Even if you are alone you wage war with yourself.
-Dejan Stojanović
Only on the Internet can a person be lonely and popular at the same time.
-Allison Burnett
"Undiscovered Gyrl"
If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right.
-Jules Renard
The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!
-Edith Wharton
"The Age of Innocence"
Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.
-Woody Allen
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"
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"
To be alone is to be different, to be different is to be alone.
-Suzanne Gordon
Companionship is a foreign concept to some people. They fear it as much as the majority of people fear loneliness.
-Criss Jami
