Novelty is a new kind of loneliness.
-Wendell Berry
Quotations
Loneliness
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
"Every You, Every Me"
Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.
-Douglas Coupland
"Shampoo Planet"
I'll never forget how the depression and loneliness felt good and bad at the same time. Still does.
-Henry Rollins
"The Portable Henry Rollins"
You cannot be lonely if you like the person you’re alone with.
-Wayne W. Dyer
Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is richness of self.
-May Sarton
Loneliness isn’t a lack of people. It is a lack of understanding and acceptance.
-Bronnie Ware
It would be too easy to say that I feel invisible. Instead, I feel painfully visible, and entirely ignored.
-David Levithan
"Every Day"
I am lonely, sometimes, but I dare say it's good for me.
-Louisa May Alcott
"Little Women"
Because, once alone, it is impossible to believe that one could ever have been otherwise. Loneliness is an absolute discovery.
-Marilynne Robinson
"Housekeeping"
