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"
Quotations
Loneliness
Be good and you will be lonesome.
-Mark Twain
"Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World"
To be alone is to be different, to be different is to be alone.
-Suzanne Gordon
If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.
-Aldous Huxley
"Brave New World"
Because, once alone, it is impossible to believe that one could ever have been otherwise. Loneliness is an absolute discovery.
-Marilynne Robinson
"Housekeeping"
Solitude is where one discovers one is not alone.
-Marty Rubin
Even if you are alone you wage war with yourself.
-Dejan Stojanović
It's weird to feel like you miss someone you're not even sure you know.
-David Foster Wallace
"Infinite Jest"
Novelty is a new kind of loneliness.
-Wendell Berry
Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than to be in bad company.
-Booker T. Washington
