I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
-Henry David Thoreau
Quotations
Loneliness
All great and precious things are lonely.
-John Steinbeck
"East of Eden"
It would be too easy to say that I feel invisible. Instead, I feel painfully visible, and entirely ignored.
-David Levithan
"Every Day"
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"
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"
Companionship is a foreign concept to some people. They fear it as much as the majority of people fear loneliness.
-Criss Jami
Loneliness is the unloneliest feeling in the world, as everyone has experienced it.
-Jarod Kintz
"This Book is Not for Sale"
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"
A lonely day is God's way of saying that he wants to spend some quality time with you.
-Criss Jami
Novelty is a new kind of loneliness.
-Wendell Berry
