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
Some people are just not meant to be in this world. It's just too much for them.
-Phoebe Steon
"The Boy on Cinnamon Street"
All great and precious things are lonely.
-John Steinbeck
"East of Eden"
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
Loneliness is the prison of the human spirit. When we are lonely, we pace back and forth in small, shut-in worlds.
-John Powell
"Will the Real Me Please Stand Up?: 25 Guidelines for Good Communication"
Even the company of the mad was better than the company of the dead.
-Stephen King
"The Stand"
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"
I felt very lonely when they were all there.
-Ernest Hemingway
"A Farewell to Arms"
I need the pain of loneliness to make my imagination work.
-Orhan Pamuk
