The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with the present.
-Alan Lightman
"Einstein's Dreams"
Quotations
Loneliness
We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community.
-Dorothy Day
"The Long Loneliness: The Autobiography of the Legendary Catholic Social Activist"
To be alone is to be different, to be different is to be alone.
-Suzanne Gordon
Lonely was much better than alone.
-Toni Morrison
"The Bluest Eye"
Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.
-Woody Allen
Solitude is fine but you need someone to tellyou that solitude is fine.
-Honoré De Balzac
I am lonely, sometimes, but I dare say it's good for me.
-Louisa May Alcott
"Little 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"
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"
Sometimes being surrounded by everyone is the loneliest, because you'll realise you have no one to turn to.
-Soraya
