We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community.
-Dorothy Day
"The Long Loneliness: The Autobiography of the Legendary Catholic Social Activist"
Quotations
Loneliness
Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than to be in bad company.
-Booker T. Washington
Loneliness is not a result of physical isolation; you're only lonely the day you realize that nobody shares your opinions.
-Sabah Carrim
"Humeirah"
It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.
-Albert Einstein
The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.
-Lois Lowry
"The Giver"
Even if you are alone you wage war with yourself.
-Dejan Stojanović
I need the pain of loneliness to make my imagination work.
-Orhan Pamuk
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
It would be too easy to say that I feel invisible. Instead, I feel painfully visible, and entirely ignored.
-David Levithan
"Every Day"
What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
-George Eliot
