Be good and you will be lonesome.
-Mark Twain
"Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World"
Quotations
Loneliness
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 tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with the present.
-Alan Lightman
"Einstein's Dreams"
I need the pain of loneliness to make my imagination work.
-Orhan Pamuk
What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one's self?
-Henrik Ibsen
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"
Loneliness is the unloneliest feeling in the world, as everyone has experienced it.
-Jarod Kintz
"This Book is Not for Sale"
Being alone never felt right. Sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.
-Charles Bukowski
"Women"
It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.
-Albert Einstein
I have no privacy. But I feel so alone.
-Susan Beth Pfeffer
"Life As We Knew It"
