What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one's self?
-Henrik Ibsen
Quotations
Loneliness
All great and precious things are lonely.
-John Steinbeck
"East of Eden"
Only on the Internet can a person be lonely and popular at the same time.
-Allison Burnett
"Undiscovered Gyrl"
Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is richness of self.
-May Sarton
Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.
-Lawrence Durrell
Because, once alone, it is impossible to believe that one could ever have been otherwise. Loneliness is an absolute discovery.
-Marilynne Robinson
"Housekeeping"
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
The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with the present.
-Alan Lightman
"Einstein's Dreams"
I felt very lonely when they were all there.
-Ernest Hemingway
"A Farewell to Arms"
ut there are other words for privacy and independence. They are isolation and loneliness.
-Megan Whalen Turner
"The King of Attolia"
