ut there are other words for privacy and independence. They are isolation and loneliness.
-Megan Whalen Turner
"The King of Attolia"
Quotations
Loneliness
Even the company of the mad was better than the company of the dead.
-Stephen King
"The Stand"
Novelty is a new kind of loneliness.
-Wendell Berry
If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.
-Aldous Huxley
"Brave New World"
What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one's self?
-Henrik Ibsen
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"
All great and precious things are lonely.
-John Steinbeck
"East of Eden"
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"
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"
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"
