Because, once alone, it is impossible to believe that one could ever have been otherwise. Loneliness is an absolute discovery.
-Marilynne Robinson
"Housekeeping"
Quotations
Loneliness
When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
-Tennessee Williams
"Camino Real"
To be alone is to be different, to be different is to be alone.
-Suzanne Gordon
Solitude is fine but you need someone to tellyou that solitude is fine.
-Honoré De Balzac
You cannot be lonely if you like the person you’re alone with.
-Wayne W. Dyer
Don’t try to hog loneliness and keep it all to yourself. Share it with a special someone.
-Jarod Kintz
"The Titanic would never have sunk if it were made out of a sink"
Loneliness is the unloneliest feeling in the world, as everyone has experienced it.
-Jarod Kintz
"This Book is Not for Sale"
What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
-George Eliot
I have no privacy. But I feel so alone.
-Susan Beth Pfeffer
"Life As We Knew It"
If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.
-Aldous Huxley
"Brave New World"
