Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
-John Steinbeck
"Of Mice and Men"
Quotations
Loneliness
The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!
-Edith Wharton
"The Age of Innocence"
When we cannot bear to be alone, it means we do not properly value the only companion we will have from birth to death - ourselves.
-Eda LeShan
Language... has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.
-Paul Johannes Tillich
"The Eternal Now"
If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right.
-Jules Renard
ut there are other words for privacy and independence. They are isolation and loneliness.
-Megan Whalen Turner
"The King of Attolia"
Being alone never felt right. Sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.
-Charles Bukowski
"Women"
Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.
-Douglas Coupland
"Shampoo Planet"
Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.
-Henry Rollins
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"
