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
Perhaps only people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the universe. The others have a certain stickiness, they stick to the mass.
-D. H. Lawrence
"Lady Chatterley's Lover"
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
-Mother Teresa
It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.
-Albert Einstein
What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
-George Eliot
All great and precious things are lonely.
-John Steinbeck
"East of Eden"
I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
-Henry David Thoreau
Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
-John Steinbeck
"Of Mice and Men"
It's only natural to feel lonely after the enjoyable moments pass. But as you experience new joys those feelings of sorrow will start to fade.
-Mizu Sahara
I have no privacy. But I feel so alone.
-Susan Beth Pfeffer
"Life As We Knew It"
