What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
-George Eliot
Quotations
Loneliness
The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely.
-Charlotte Brontë
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"
We live as we dream--Alone.
-Joseph Conrad
"Heart of Darkness"
It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.
-Albert Einstein
Solitude is fine but you need someone to tellyou that solitude is fine.
-Honoré De Balzac
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"
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
When we are most alone is when we embrace another's loneliness.
-Mitch Albom
"The Time Keeper"
Novelty is a new kind of loneliness.
-Wendell Berry
