All great and precious things are lonely.
-John Steinbeck
"East of Eden"
Quotations
Loneliness
We live as we dream--Alone.
-Joseph Conrad
"Heart of Darkness"
Loneliness isn’t a lack of people. It is a lack of understanding and acceptance.
-Bronnie Ware
Perhaps only people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the universe. The others have a certain stickiness, they stick to the mass.
-D. H. Lawrence
"Lady Chatterley's Lover"
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"
Because, once alone, it is impossible to believe that one could ever have been otherwise. Loneliness is an absolute discovery.
-Marilynne Robinson
"Housekeeping"
Solitude is fine but you need someone to tellyou that solitude is fine.
-Honoré De Balzac
We hear only our own voices, still echoes returning to our emptiness.
-Dejan Stojanović
Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.
-Douglas Coupland
"Shampoo Planet"
