The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!
-Edith Wharton
"The Age of Innocence"
Quotations
Loneliness
Thirsty for attention is a cry of loneliness.
-Toba Beta
"My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut"
What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one's self?
-Henrik Ibsen
When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
-Tennessee Williams
"Camino Real"
Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.
-Douglas Coupland
"Shampoo Planet"
We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community.
-Dorothy Day
"The Long Loneliness: The Autobiography of the Legendary Catholic Social Activist"
Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than to be in bad company.
-Booker T. Washington
To be alone is to be different, to be different is to be alone.
-Suzanne Gordon
Novelty is a new kind of loneliness.
-Wendell Berry
Man’s loneliness is but his fear of life.
-Eugene O'Neill
