The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with the present.
-Alan Lightman
"Einstein's Dreams"
Quotations
Loneliness
Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is richness of self.
-May Sarton
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"
I am lonely, sometimes, but I dare say it's good for me.
-Louisa May Alcott
"Little Women"
Be good and you will be lonesome.
-Mark Twain
"Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World"
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"
All great and precious things are lonely.
-John Steinbeck
"East of Eden"
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"
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"
We hear only our own voices, still echoes returning to our emptiness.
-Dejan Stojanović
