If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.
-Jean Paul Sartre
Quotations
Loneliness
ut there are other words for privacy and independence. They are isolation and loneliness.
-Megan Whalen Turner
"The King of Attolia"
It would be too easy to say that I feel invisible. Instead, I feel painfully visible, and entirely ignored.
-David Levithan
"Every Day"
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"
Lonely was much better than alone.
-Toni Morrison
"The Bluest Eye"
It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.
-Albert Einstein
The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.
-Lois Lowry
"The Giver"
Because, once alone, it is impossible to believe that one could ever have been otherwise. Loneliness is an absolute discovery.
-Marilynne Robinson
"Housekeeping"
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
-Mother Teresa
I am lonely, sometimes, but I dare say it's good for me.
-Louisa May Alcott
"Little Women"
