Lonely was much better than alone.
-Toni Morrison
"The Bluest Eye"
Quotations
Loneliness
All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart.
-Tahereh Mafi
"Shatter Me"
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"
All great and precious things are lonely.
-John Steinbeck
"East of Eden"
The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!
-Edith Wharton
"The Age of Innocence"
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"
Novelty is a new kind of loneliness.
-Wendell Berry
It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.
-Albert Einstein
If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right.
-Jules Renard
The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely.
-Charlotte Brontë
