We live as we dream--Alone.
-Joseph Conrad
"Heart of Darkness"
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"
I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
-Henry David Thoreau
The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely.
-Charlotte Brontë
Man’s loneliness is but his fear of life.
-Eugene O'Neill
What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
-George Eliot
I have no privacy. But I feel so alone.
-Susan Beth Pfeffer
"Life As We Knew It"
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"
All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart.
-Tahereh Mafi
"Shatter Me"
