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
Quotations
Loneliness
Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.
-Douglas Coupland
"Shampoo Planet"
What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one's self?
-Henrik Ibsen
Novelty is a new kind of loneliness.
-Wendell Berry
When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
-Tennessee Williams
"Camino Real"
To be alone is to be different, to be different is to be alone.
-Suzanne Gordon
Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.
-Lawrence Durrell
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"
Even the company of the mad was better than the company of the dead.
-Stephen King
"The Stand"
It's only natural to feel lonely after the enjoyable moments pass. But as you experience new joys those feelings of sorrow will start to fade.
-Mizu Sahara
