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
Quotations
Loneliness
Even the company of the mad was better than the company of the dead.
-Stephen King
"The Stand"
Lonely was much better than alone.
-Toni Morrison
"The Bluest Eye"
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"
Loneliness isn’t a lack of people. It is a lack of understanding and acceptance.
-Bronnie Ware
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"
Nobody can discover the world for somebody else. Only when we discover it for ourselves does it become common ground and a common bond and we cease to be alone.
-Wendell Berry
"A Place on Earth"
It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.
-Albert Einstein
I am lonely, sometimes, but I dare say it's good for me.
-Louisa May Alcott
"Little Women"
Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.
-Lawrence Durrell
