When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
-Tennessee Williams
"Camino Real"
Quotations
Loneliness
Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than to be in bad company.
-Booker T. Washington
Even the company of the mad was better than the company of the dead.
-Stephen King
"The Stand"
I had gotten so used to being alone, but never entirely used to it. Never used to it enough to stop wanting the alternative.
-David Levithan
"Every You, Every Me"
Thirsty for attention is a cry of loneliness.
-Toba Beta
"My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut"
Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is richness of self.
-May Sarton
If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.
-Jean Paul Sartre
Man’s loneliness is but his fear of life.
-Eugene O'Neill
ut there are other words for privacy and independence. They are isolation and loneliness.
-Megan Whalen Turner
"The King of Attolia"
As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.
-Maya Angelou
