If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.
-Jean Paul Sartre
Quotations
Loneliness
Because, once alone, it is impossible to believe that one could ever have been otherwise. Loneliness is an absolute discovery.
-Marilynne Robinson
"Housekeeping"
Some people are just not meant to be in this world. It's just too much for them.
-Phoebe Steon
"The Boy on Cinnamon Street"
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"
If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.
-Aldous Huxley
"Brave New World"
Man’s loneliness is but his fear of life.
-Eugene O'Neill
Be good and you will be lonesome.
-Mark Twain
"Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World"
Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
-John Steinbeck
"Of Mice and Men"
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"
Novelty is a new kind of loneliness.
-Wendell Berry
