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
What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
-George Eliot
If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.
-Aldous Huxley
"Brave New World"
All great and precious things are lonely.
-John Steinbeck
"East of Eden"
When we are most alone is when we embrace another's loneliness.
-Mitch Albom
"The Time Keeper"
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
-Mother Teresa
Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is richness of self.
-May Sarton
Novelty is a new kind of loneliness.
-Wendell Berry
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 loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.
-F. Scott Fitzgerald
"The Great Gatsby"
