Lonely was much better than alone.
-Toni Morrison
"The Bluest Eye"
Quotations
Loneliness
People who do a job that claims to be creative have to be alone to recharge their batteries. You can’t live 24 hours a day in the spotlight and remain creative. For people like me, solitude is a victory.
-Karl Lagerfeld
If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right.
-Jules Renard
I have no privacy. But I feel so alone.
-Susan Beth Pfeffer
"Life As We Knew It"
I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
-Henry David Thoreau
All great and precious things are lonely.
-John Steinbeck
"East of Eden"
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"
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"
The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.
-F. Scott Fitzgerald
"The Great Gatsby"
To be alone is to be different, to be different is to be alone.
-Suzanne Gordon
