Lonely was much better than alone.
-Toni Morrison
"The Bluest Eye"
Quotations
Loneliness
What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
-George Eliot
We hear only our own voices, still echoes returning to our emptiness.
-Dejan Stojanović
Companionship is a foreign concept to some people. They fear it as much as the majority of people fear loneliness.
-Criss Jami
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"
When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
-Tennessee Williams
"Camino Real"
Solitude is fine but you need someone to tellyou that solitude is fine.
-Honoré De Balzac
We live as we dream--Alone.
-Joseph Conrad
"Heart of Darkness"
You cannot be lonely if you like the person you’re alone with.
-Wayne W. Dyer
