What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one's self?
-Henrik Ibsen
Quotations
Loneliness
Being alone never felt right. Sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.
-Charles Bukowski
"Women"
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"
Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.
-Arthur C. Clarke
Novelty is a new kind of loneliness.
-Wendell Berry
If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right.
-Jules Renard
I felt very lonely when they were all there.
-Ernest Hemingway
"A Farewell to Arms"
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"
