Lonely was much better than alone.
-Toni Morrison
"The Bluest Eye"
Quotations
Loneliness
Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.
-Woody Allen
All great and precious things are lonely.
-John Steinbeck
"East of Eden"
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 adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.
-Henry Rollins
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"
As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.
-Maya Angelou
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
When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
-Tennessee Williams
"Camino Real"
I had gotten so used to being alone, but never entirely used to it. Never used to it enough to stop wanting the alternative.
-David Levithan
"Every You, Every Me"
