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"
Quotations
Loneliness
There is the solitude of suffering, when you go through darkness that is lonely, intense, and terrible. Words become powerless to express your pain; what others hear from your words is so distant and different from what you are actually suffering.
- John O'donohue
"Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom"
It's weird to feel like you miss someone you're not even sure you know.
-David Foster Wallace
"Infinite Jest"
It would be too easy to say that I feel invisible. Instead, I feel painfully visible, and entirely ignored.
-David Levithan
"Every Day"
Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books written because authors couldn't find anyone to talk to.
-Alain De Botton
"The Consolations of Philosophy"
The loneliness you feel with another person, the wrong person, is the loneliest of all.
-Deb Caletti
"The Fortunes of Indigo Skye"
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"
Even if you are alone you wage war with yourself.
-Dejan Stojanović
