Because, once alone, it is impossible to believe that one could ever have been otherwise. Loneliness is an absolute discovery.
-Marilynne Robinson
"Housekeeping"
Quotations
Loneliness
You cannot be lonely if you like the person you’re alone with.
-Wayne W. Dyer
Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than to be in bad company.
-Booker T. Washington
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
-Mother Teresa
I felt very lonely when they were all there.
-Ernest Hemingway
"A Farewell to Arms"
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
Language... has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.
-Paul Johannes Tillich
"The Eternal Now"
Solitude is fine but you need someone to tellyou that solitude is fine.
-Honoré De Balzac
Sometimes being surrounded by everyone is the loneliest, because you'll realise you have no one to turn to.
-Soraya
Being alone never felt right. Sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.
-Charles Bukowski
"Women"
