Willa Cather Quotes on Isolation
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It does not matter much whom we live with in this world, but it matters a great deal whom we dream of.
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The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
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'In great misfortunes,' he told himself, 'people want to be alone. They have a right to be. And the misfortunes that occur within one are the greatest. Surely the saddest thing in the world is falling out of love - if once one has ever fallen in.' Falling out, for him, seemed to mean falling out of all domestic and social relations, out of his place in the human family, indeed.