The desolation of loneliness is terrible. Was I wise? Perhaps not, but it seemed as though anything else was impossible.


Notebook entry (27 December 1932) on his estrangement from the Labour Party, quoted in David Marquand, 'MacDonald, (James) Ramsay (1866–1937)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Oct 2009.

Ramsay MacDonald Quotes

The desolation of loneliness is terrible. Was I wise? Perhaps not, but it seemed as though anything else was impossible.

The desolation of loneliness is terrible. Was I wise? Perhaps not, but it seemed as though anything else was impossible.

The desolation of loneliness is terrible. Was I wise? Perhaps not, but it seemed as though anything else was impossible.

The desolation of loneliness is terrible. Was I wise? Perhaps not, but it seemed as though anything else was impossible.