The sun is such a lonely star. Whenever he comes out to see his friends, they all disappear.
-Joseph Gordon Levitt
"The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories: Volume 1"
Quotations
Loneliness
Even if you are alone you wage war with yourself.
-Dejan Stojanović
We live as we dream--Alone.
-Joseph Conrad
"Heart of Darkness"
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
It's weird to feel like you miss someone you're not even sure you know.
-David Foster Wallace
"Infinite Jest"
Even the company of the mad was better than the company of the dead.
-Stephen King
"The Stand"
I have no privacy. But I feel so alone.
-Susan Beth Pfeffer
"Life As We Knew It"
I am lonely, sometimes, but I dare say it's good for me.
-Louisa May Alcott
"Little Women"
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"
The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.
-Lois Lowry
"The Giver"
