Quotations
Loneliness
The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely.
- Charlotte Brontë
Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.
- Douglas Coupland
Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than to be in bad company.
- Booker T. Washington
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
I had gotten so used to being alone, but never entirely used to it. Never used to it enough to stop wanting the alternative.
- David Levithan
I'll never forget how the depression and loneliness felt good and bad at the same time. Still does.
- Henry Rollins
I felt very lonely when they were all there.
- Ernest Hemingway
The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!
- Edith Wharton
Perhaps only people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the universe. The others have a certain stickiness, they stick to the mass.
- D. H. Lawrence
ut there are other words for privacy and independence. They are isolation and loneliness.
- Megan Whalen Turner
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