Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
-John Steinbeck
"Of Mice and Men"
Quotations
Loneliness
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"
I had gotten so used to being alone, but never entirely used to it. Never used to it enough to stop wanting the alternative.
-David Levithan
"Every You, Every Me"
Learning from other people's mistakes is better than making your own. And it is easier to live lonely than to have a broken heart.
-Aria Adams
"Reminiscence"
Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is richness of self.
-May Sarton
I need the pain of loneliness to make my imagination work.
-Orhan Pamuk
Don’t try to hog loneliness and keep it all to yourself. Share it with a special someone.
-Jarod Kintz
"The Titanic would never have sunk if it were made out of a sink"
To be alone is to be different, to be different is to be alone.
-Suzanne Gordon
The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.
-F. Scott Fitzgerald
"The Great Gatsby"
Loneliness isn’t a lack of people. It is a lack of understanding and acceptance.
-Bronnie Ware
