What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one's self?
-Henrik Ibsen
Quotations
Loneliness
Novelty is a new kind of loneliness.
-Wendell Berry
I am lonely, sometimes, but I dare say it's good for me.
-Louisa May Alcott
"Little Women"
It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.
-Albert Einstein
It would be too easy to say that I feel invisible. Instead, I feel painfully visible, and entirely ignored.
-David Levithan
"Every Day"
We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community.
-Dorothy Day
"The Long Loneliness: The Autobiography of the Legendary Catholic Social Activist"
Loneliness is not a result of physical isolation; you're only lonely the day you realize that nobody shares your opinions.
-Sabah Carrim
"Humeirah"
When we are most alone is when we embrace another's loneliness.
-Mitch Albom
"The Time Keeper"
Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.
-Lawrence Durrell
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"
