The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!
-Edith Wharton
"The Age of Innocence"
Quotations
Loneliness
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"
When we are most alone is when we embrace another's loneliness.
-Mitch Albom
"The Time Keeper"
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"
Some people are just not meant to be in this world. It's just too much for them.
-Phoebe Steon
"The Boy on Cinnamon Street"
Because, once alone, it is impossible to believe that one could ever have been otherwise. Loneliness is an absolute discovery.
-Marilynne Robinson
"Housekeeping"
What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
-George Eliot
Solitude is where one discovers one is not alone.
-Marty Rubin
ut there are other words for privacy and independence. They are isolation and loneliness.
-Megan Whalen Turner
"The King of Attolia"
It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.
-Albert Einstein
