Quotations
Loneliness
Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is richness of self.
- May Sarton
I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
- Henry David Thoreau
It would be too easy to say that I feel invisible. Instead, I feel painfully visible, and entirely ignored.
- David Levithan
Though we longed not to be lonely, we also feared the pain it would take us to be brought out of our lonely states. And after that fear, could we be guaranteed that we would never be returned to a state of loneliness again? We could not.
- Edward Carey
Man’s loneliness is but his fear of life.
- Eugene O'Neill
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
Because, once alone, it is impossible to believe that one could ever have been otherwise. Loneliness is an absolute discovery.
- Marilynne Robinson
Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.
- Arthur C. Clarke
When we are most alone is when we embrace another's loneliness.
- Mitch Albom
Being alone never felt right. Sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.
- Charles Bukowski
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