What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one's self?
-Henrik Ibsen
Quotations
Loneliness
It's weird to feel like you miss someone you're not even sure you know.
-David Foster Wallace
"Infinite Jest"
My sleep wasn't peaceful, though. I have the sense of emerging from a world of dark, haunted places where I traveled alone.
-Suzanne Collins
"Mockingjay"
Solitude is fine but you need someone to tellyou that solitude is fine.
-Honoré De Balzac
Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.
-Henry Rollins
Companionship is a foreign concept to some people. They fear it as much as the majority of people fear loneliness.
-Criss Jami
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 am lonely, sometimes, but I dare say it's good for me.
-Louisa May Alcott
"Little Women"
Because, once alone, it is impossible to believe that one could ever have been otherwise. Loneliness is an absolute discovery.
-Marilynne Robinson
"Housekeeping"
I have no privacy. But I feel so alone.
-Susan Beth Pfeffer
"Life As We Knew It"
