All great and precious things are lonely.
-John Steinbeck
"East of Eden"
Quotations
Loneliness
I have no privacy. But I feel so alone.
-Susan Beth Pfeffer
"Life As We Knew It"
We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community.
-Dorothy Day
"The Long Loneliness: The Autobiography of the Legendary Catholic Social Activist"
What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one's self?
-Henrik Ibsen
Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.
-Douglas Coupland
"Shampoo Planet"
Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
-John Steinbeck
"Of Mice and Men"
Loneliness is the unloneliest feeling in the world, as everyone has experienced it.
-Jarod Kintz
"This Book is Not for Sale"
Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.
-Woody Allen
Man’s loneliness is but his fear of life.
-Eugene O'Neill
All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart.
-Tahereh Mafi
"Shatter Me"
