The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!
-Edith Wharton
"The Age of Innocence"
Quotations
Loneliness
You cannot be lonely if you like the person you’re alone with.
-Wayne W. Dyer
Nobody can discover the world for somebody else. Only when we discover it for ourselves does it become common ground and a common bond and we cease to be alone.
-Wendell Berry
"A Place on Earth"
Be good and you will be lonesome.
-Mark Twain
"Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World"
If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.
-Aldous Huxley
"Brave New World"
Even the company of the mad was better than the company of the dead.
-Stephen King
"The Stand"
I felt very lonely when they were all there.
-Ernest Hemingway
"A Farewell to Arms"
Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is richness of self.
-May Sarton
Because, once alone, it is impossible to believe that one could ever have been otherwise. Loneliness is an absolute discovery.
-Marilynne Robinson
"Housekeeping"
Being alone never felt right. Sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.
-Charles Bukowski
"Women"
