When we cannot bear to be alone, it means we do not properly value the only companion we will have from birth to death - ourselves.
-Eda LeShan
Quotations
Loneliness
I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
-Henry David Thoreau
What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one's self?
-Henrik Ibsen
If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.
-Jean Paul Sartre
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"
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"
You cannot be lonely if you like the person you’re alone with.
-Wayne W. Dyer
Novelty is a new kind of loneliness.
-Wendell Berry
Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.
-Woody Allen
When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
-Tennessee Williams
"Camino Real"
