Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.
-Lawrence Durrell
Quotations
Loneliness
Solitude is where one discovers one is not alone.
-Marty Rubin
I am lonely, sometimes, but I dare say it's good for me.
-Louisa May Alcott
"Little Women"
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"
If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.
-Jean Paul Sartre
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"
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
-Mother Teresa
The loneliness you feel with another person, the wrong person, is the loneliest of all.
-Deb Caletti
"The Fortunes of Indigo Skye"
ut there are other words for privacy and independence. They are isolation and loneliness.
-Megan Whalen Turner
"The King of Attolia"
Man’s loneliness is but his fear of life.
-Eugene O'Neill
