Dorothy Day Quotes

There's something about being with a group of people who become like family that must be needed in society.

The kind of relatedness to the world may be noble or trivial, but even being related to the basest kind of pattern is immensely preferable to being alone.

Each way means loneliness -- and communion.

I had family and friends back home. Just because I could potentially feel alone in Los Angeles, that didn't mean I was alone.

We have all known the long loneliness, and we have found that the answer is community.

As human beings, we need to know that we are not alone, that we are not crazy or completely out of our minds, that there are other people out there who feel as we do, live as we do, love as we do, who are like us.

Anything that makes you feel the most alone also has the greatest power to connect you.

To be a member of something. To be a member of something helps get rid of that lonely feeling.

Don't feel like you're alone because you're not.

You need a village, if only for the pleasure of leaving it. A village means that you are not alone, knowing that in the people, the trees, the earth, there is something that belongs to you, waiting for you when you are not there.

We are not, and never need be, alone.

In all our searching, the only thing we've found that makes the emptiness bearable is each other.

We are awakening from the dream of isolation, from the dream of loneliness, and it's a terrible shock.

One of the oldest aches in the bones of humanity is loneliness. I mean it's one of the things that goes way back; loneliness is not good for the world. And so, whoever you are, gay or straight, it is totally normal, natural, and healthy to want somebody to go through life with. It's central to our humanity.

You'll never be alone in the bone orchard.

You can't live entirely alone. You have to have some kind of a support system.

We walk alone through this world, but if we're lucky, we have a moment of belonging to something, to someone, that sustains us through a lifetime of loneliness.

She was not accustomed to taste the joys of solitude except in company.

In giving you are throwing a bridge across the chasm of your solitude.

The best of community does give one a deep sense of belonging and well-being; and in that sense community takes away loneliness.

More than anything, all I have ever wanted is to be close to someone. More than anything, all I have ever wanted is to feel as if i wasn't alone.

The most incredible gift you can give someone in a video is to help them feel less alone... The things that make us feel the most alone, have the greatest power to connect us

People are longing to rediscover true community. We have had enough of loneliness, independence and competition.

I've been here for nine years, and over that time, these people have become like my family.

In those early years in New York when I was a stranger in a big city, it was the companionship and later friendship which I was offered in the Linnean Society that was the most important thing in my life.