Man’s loneliness is but his fear of life.
-Eugene O'Neill
Quotations
Loneliness
Lonely was much better than alone.
-Toni Morrison
"The Bluest Eye"
The sun is such a lonely star. Whenever he comes out to see his friends, they all disappear.
-Joseph Gordon Levitt
"The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories: Volume 1"
When we are most alone is when we embrace another's loneliness.
-Mitch Albom
"The Time Keeper"
As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.
-Maya Angelou
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
"Observatory Mansions"
Over time, loneliness gets inside you and doesn't go away.
-Carlos Ruiz Zafón
"The Angel's Game"
Even if you are alone you wage war with yourself.
-Dejan Stojanović
When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
-Tennessee Williams
"Camino Real"
I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
-Henry David Thoreau
