Perhaps only people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the universe. The others have a certain stickiness, they stick to the mass.
-D. H. Lawrence
"Lady Chatterley's Lover"
Quotations
Loneliness
ut there are other words for privacy and independence. They are isolation and loneliness.
-Megan Whalen Turner
"The King of Attolia"
The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!
-Edith Wharton
"The Age of Innocence"
Lonely was much better than alone.
-Toni Morrison
"The Bluest Eye"
If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.
-Aldous Huxley
"Brave New World"
Solitude is where one discovers one is not alone.
-Marty Rubin
When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
-Tennessee Williams
"Camino Real"
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"
Loneliness isn’t a lack of people. It is a lack of understanding and acceptance.
-Bronnie Ware
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
-Mother Teresa
