Though we longed not to be lonely, we also feared the pain it would take us to be brought out of our lonely states. And after that fear, could we be guaranteed that we would never be returned to a state of loneliness again? We could not.
-Edward Carey
"Observatory Mansions"
Quotations
Loneliness
Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
-John Steinbeck
"Of Mice and Men"
Novelty is a new kind of loneliness.
-Wendell Berry
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"
Sometimes being surrounded by everyone is the loneliest, because you'll realise you have no one to turn to.
-Soraya
You cannot be lonely if you like the person you’re alone with.
-Wayne W. Dyer
If you smile when you are alone, then you really mean it.
-Andy Rooney
I have no privacy. But I feel so alone.
-Susan Beth Pfeffer
"Life As We Knew It"
