My sleep wasn't peaceful, though. I have the sense of emerging from a world of dark, haunted places where I traveled alone.
-Suzanne Collins
"Mockingjay"
Quotations
Loneliness
Because, once alone, it is impossible to believe that one could ever have been otherwise. Loneliness is an absolute discovery.
-Marilynne Robinson
"Housekeeping"
It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.
-Albert Einstein
Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.
-Henry Rollins
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"
What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
-George Eliot
I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
-Henry David Thoreau
All great and precious things are lonely.
-John Steinbeck
"East of Eden"
If you smile when you are alone, then you really mean it.
-Andy Rooney
We hear only our own voices, still echoes returning to our emptiness.
-Dejan Stojanović
