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"
Quotations
Loneliness
ut there are other words for privacy and independence. They are isolation and loneliness.
-Megan Whalen Turner
"The King of Attolia"
If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right.
-Jules Renard
Loneliness isn’t a lack of people. It is a lack of understanding and acceptance.
-Bronnie Ware
The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with the present.
-Alan Lightman
"Einstein's Dreams"
To be alone is to be different, to be different is to be alone.
-Suzanne Gordon
Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is richness of self.
-May Sarton
Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.
-Woody Allen
It would be too easy to say that I feel invisible. Instead, I feel painfully visible, and entirely ignored.
-David Levithan
"Every Day"
Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than to be in bad company.
-Booker T. Washington
