All great and precious things are lonely.
-John Steinbeck
"East of Eden"
Quotations
Loneliness
I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
-Henry David Thoreau
It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.
-Albert Einstein
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"
Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than to be in bad company.
-Booker T. Washington
Be good and you will be lonesome.
-Mark Twain
"Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World"
The loneliness you feel with another person, the wrong person, is the loneliest of all.
-Deb Caletti
"The Fortunes of Indigo Skye"
Only on the Internet can a person be lonely and popular at the same time.
-Allison Burnett
"Undiscovered Gyrl"
Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is richness of self.
-May Sarton
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"
