Lonely was much better than alone.
-Toni Morrison
"The Bluest Eye"
Quotations
Loneliness
Solitude is fine but you need someone to tellyou that solitude is fine.
-Honoré De Balzac
Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.
-Douglas Coupland
"Shampoo Planet"
Because, once alone, it is impossible to believe that one could ever have been otherwise. Loneliness is an absolute discovery.
-Marilynne Robinson
"Housekeeping"
Loneliness is the standard that separates life from death.
-Sorin Cerin
"Wisdom Collection: The Book of Wisdom"
When we are most alone is when we embrace another's loneliness.
-Mitch Albom
"The Time Keeper"
Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
-John Steinbeck
"Of Mice and Men"
People who do a job that claims to be creative have to be alone to recharge their batteries. You can’t live 24 hours a day in the spotlight and remain creative. For people like me, solitude is a victory.
-Karl Lagerfeld
Perhaps only people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the universe. The others have a certain stickiness, they stick to the mass.
-D. H. Lawrence
"Lady Chatterley's Lover"
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"
