Lonely was much better than alone.
-Toni Morrison
"The Bluest Eye"
Quotations
Loneliness
Loneliness is the unloneliest feeling in the world, as everyone has experienced it.
-Jarod Kintz
"This Book is Not for Sale"
A lonely day is God's way of saying that he wants to spend some quality time with you.
-Criss Jami
Though we longed not to be lonely, we also feared the pain it would take us to be brought out of our lonely states. And after that fear, could we be guaranteed that we would never be returned to a state of loneliness again? We could not.
-Edward Carey
"Observatory Mansions"
Language... has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.
-Paul Johannes Tillich
"The Eternal Now"
I have no privacy. But I feel so alone.
-Susan Beth Pfeffer
"Life As We Knew It"
I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
-Henry David Thoreau
When we are most alone is when we embrace another's loneliness.
-Mitch Albom
"The Time Keeper"
We hear only our own voices, still echoes returning to our emptiness.
-Dejan Stojanović
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"
