You cannot be lonely if you like the person you’re alone with.
-Wayne W. Dyer
Quotations
Loneliness
I felt very lonely when they were all there.
-Ernest Hemingway
"A Farewell to Arms"
Because, once alone, it is impossible to believe that one could ever have been otherwise. Loneliness is an absolute discovery.
-Marilynne Robinson
"Housekeeping"
What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
-George Eliot
It would be too easy to say that I feel invisible. Instead, I feel painfully visible, and entirely ignored.
-David Levithan
"Every Day"
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"
Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is richness of self.
-May Sarton
Sometimes being surrounded by everyone is the loneliest, because you'll realise you have no one to turn to.
-Soraya
If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right.
-Jules Renard
The loneliness you feel with another person, the wrong person, is the loneliest of all.
-Deb Caletti
"The Fortunes of Indigo Skye"
