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
Quotations
Loneliness
Novelty is a new kind of loneliness.
-Wendell Berry
Perhaps only people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the universe. The others have a certain stickiness, they stick to the mass.
-D. H. Lawrence
"Lady Chatterley's Lover"
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
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"
I have no privacy. But I feel so alone.
-Susan Beth Pfeffer
"Life As We Knew It"
What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
-George Eliot
If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right.
-Jules Renard
I need the pain of loneliness to make my imagination work.
-Orhan Pamuk
