To be alone is to be different, to be different is to be alone.
-Suzanne Gordon
Quotations
Loneliness
It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.
-Albert Einstein
It would be too easy to say that I feel invisible. Instead, I feel painfully visible, and entirely ignored.
-David Levithan
"Every Day"
ut there are other words for privacy and independence. They are isolation and loneliness.
-Megan Whalen Turner
"The King of Attolia"
I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
-Henry David Thoreau
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"
I felt very lonely when they were all there.
-Ernest Hemingway
"A Farewell to Arms"
If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.
-Jean Paul Sartre
Don’t try to hog loneliness and keep it all to yourself. Share it with a special someone.
-Jarod Kintz
"The Titanic would never have sunk if it were made out of a sink"
If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right.
-Jules Renard
