I am lonely, sometimes, but I dare say it's good for me.
-Louisa May Alcott
"Little Women"
Quotations
Loneliness
We hear only our own voices, still echoes returning to our emptiness.
-Dejan Stojanović
There is the solitude of suffering, when you go through darkness that is lonely, intense, and terrible. Words become powerless to express your pain; what others hear from your words is so distant and different from what you are actually suffering.
- John O'donohue
"Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom"
Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is richness of self.
-May Sarton
To be alone is to be different, to be different is to be alone.
-Suzanne Gordon
Loneliness is the unloneliest feeling in the world, as everyone has experienced it.
-Jarod Kintz
"This Book is Not for Sale"
Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.
-Douglas Coupland
"Shampoo Planet"
Lonely was much better than alone.
-Toni Morrison
"The Bluest Eye"
When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
-Tennessee Williams
"Camino Real"
Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
-John Steinbeck
"Of Mice and Men"
