Man’s loneliness is but his fear of life.
-Eugene O'Neill
Quotations
Loneliness
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"
We hear only our own voices, still echoes returning to our emptiness.
-Dejan Stojanović
Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
-John Steinbeck
"Of Mice and Men"
You cannot be lonely if you like the person you’re alone with.
-Wayne W. Dyer
The loneliness you feel with another person, the wrong person, is the loneliest of all.
-Deb Caletti
"The Fortunes of Indigo Skye"
Being alone never felt right. Sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.
-Charles Bukowski
"Women"
Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.
-Douglas Coupland
"Shampoo Planet"
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"
Solitude is fine but you need someone to tellyou that solitude is fine.
-Honoré De Balzac
