What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one's self?
-Henrik Ibsen
Quotations
Loneliness
Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.
-Douglas Coupland
"Shampoo Planet"
I felt very lonely when they were all there.
-Ernest Hemingway
"A Farewell to Arms"
We hear only our own voices, still echoes returning to our emptiness.
-Dejan Stojanović
All great and precious things are lonely.
-John Steinbeck
"East of Eden"
When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
-Tennessee Williams
"Camino Real"
It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.
-Albert Einstein
We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community.
-Dorothy Day
"The Long Loneliness: The Autobiography of the Legendary Catholic Social Activist"
Over time, loneliness gets inside you and doesn't go away.
-Carlos Ruiz Zafón
"The Angel's Game"
Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.
-Lawrence Durrell
