loneliness quotes

The feeling individual appeared weakhe felt only his own weakness.But if he accepted his weakness and his separateness and descended into himself, intensifying his loneliness, he discovered his solidarity with other isolated creatures.

- Saul Bellow
  Nobel prize lecture, Stockholm,12 Dec.

Man's loneliness is but his fear of life!

- Eugene Gladstone O'Neill
  Lazarus. Lazarus Laughed, act 3, sc.2.

This is the day of atonement; but do my people forgive me? If a cloud knew loneliness and fear,Iwould be thatcloud.

- Adrienne Cecile Rich
  Your Native Land,Your Life,'Yom Kippur,1984'.

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner.

- Alan Sillitoe
  Title of book. Colombian  poet  whose  life  was  marked by  financial reverses, the  death  of  loved  ones,  and  the  loss  of  his  manuscripts  in  a shipwreck.  His  poetry  is  characteristically  melancholy,  and after only ten years of writing he committed suicide.

All that bowery loneliness, The brooks of Eden mazily murmuring.

-Tennyson
  'Milton: Alcaics', l.9^10.

The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account.

- Alice Malsenior Walker
  Interview inJ O'Brien (ed) Interviews with BlackWriters.