I am lonely, sometimes, but I dare say it's good for me.
-Louisa May Alcott
"Little Women"
Quotations
Loneliness
Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.
-Woody Allen
Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
-John Steinbeck
"Of Mice and Men"
It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.
-Albert Einstein
The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with the present.
-Alan Lightman
"Einstein's Dreams"
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"
Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books written because authors couldn't find anyone to talk to.
-Alain De Botton
"The Consolations of Philosophy"
I have no privacy. But I feel so alone.
-Susan Beth Pfeffer
"Life As We Knew It"
What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
-George Eliot
To be alone is to be different, to be different is to be alone.
-Suzanne Gordon
