You cannot be lonely if you like the person you’re alone with.
-Wayne W. Dyer
Quotations
Loneliness
Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.
-Douglas Coupland
"Shampoo Planet"
The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.
-Lois Lowry
"The Giver"
We live as we dream--Alone.
-Joseph Conrad
"Heart of Darkness"
It would be too easy to say that I feel invisible. Instead, I feel painfully visible, and entirely ignored.
-David Levithan
"Every Day"
If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.
-Aldous Huxley
"Brave New World"
To be alone is to be different, to be different is to be alone.
-Suzanne Gordon
Lonely was much better than alone.
-Toni Morrison
"The Bluest Eye"
Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.
-Henry Rollins
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"
