Novelty is a new kind of loneliness.
-Wendell Berry
Quotations
Loneliness
To be alone is to be different, to be different is to be alone.
-Suzanne Gordon
We hear only our own voices, still echoes returning to our emptiness.
-Dejan Stojanović
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"
Thirsty for attention is a cry of loneliness.
-Toba Beta
"My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut"
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
-Mother Teresa
The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!
-Edith Wharton
"The Age of Innocence"
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"
What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one's self?
-Henrik Ibsen
I need the pain of loneliness to make my imagination work.
-Orhan Pamuk
