Lonely was much better than alone.
-Toni Morrison
"The Bluest Eye"
Quotations
Loneliness
The sun is such a lonely star. Whenever he comes out to see his friends, they all disappear.
-Joseph Gordon Levitt
"The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories: Volume 1"
I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
-Henry David Thoreau
Solitude is fine but you need someone to tellyou that solitude is fine.
-Honoré De Balzac
Language... has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.
-Paul Johannes Tillich
"The Eternal Now"
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"
When we are most alone is when we embrace another's loneliness.
-Mitch Albom
"The Time Keeper"
We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community.
-Dorothy Day
"The Long Loneliness: The Autobiography of the Legendary Catholic Social Activist"
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
-Mother Teresa
There is the solitude of suffering, when you go through darkness that is lonely, intense, and terrible. Words become powerless to express your pain; what others hear from your words is so distant and different from what you are actually suffering.
- John O'donohue
"Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom"
