I have no privacy. But I feel so alone.
-Susan Beth Pfeffer
"Life As We Knew It"
Quotations
Loneliness
What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one's self?
-Henrik Ibsen
The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!
-Edith Wharton
"The Age of Innocence"
Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
-John Steinbeck
"Of Mice and Men"
My sleep wasn't peaceful, though. I have the sense of emerging from a world of dark, haunted places where I traveled alone.
-Suzanne Collins
"Mockingjay"
As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.
-Maya Angelou
Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.
-Arthur C. Clarke
Loneliness isn’t a lack of people. It is a lack of understanding and acceptance.
-Bronnie Ware
I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
-Henry David Thoreau
Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.
-Henry Rollins
