All great and precious things are lonely.
-John Steinbeck
"East of Eden"
Quotations
Loneliness
I need the pain of loneliness to make my imagination work.
-Orhan Pamuk
I had gotten so used to being alone, but never entirely used to it. Never used to it enough to stop wanting the alternative.
-David Levithan
"Every You, Every Me"
When we are most alone is when we embrace another's loneliness.
-Mitch Albom
"The Time Keeper"
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
If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.
-Jean Paul Sartre
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
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"
I have no privacy. But I feel so alone.
-Susan Beth Pfeffer
"Life As We Knew It"
If you smile when you are alone, then you really mean it.
-Andy Rooney
