Because, once alone, it is impossible to believe that one could ever have been otherwise. Loneliness is an absolute discovery.
-Marilynne Robinson
"Housekeeping"
Quotations
Loneliness
Some people are just not meant to be in this world. It's just too much for them.
-Phoebe Steon
"The Boy on Cinnamon Street"
I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
-Henry David Thoreau
It would be too easy to say that I feel invisible. Instead, I feel painfully visible, and entirely ignored.
-David Levithan
"Every Day"
All great and precious things are lonely.
-John Steinbeck
"East of Eden"
We hear only our own voices, still echoes returning to our emptiness.
-Dejan Stojanović
Solitude is where one discovers one is not alone.
-Marty Rubin
Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.
-Douglas Coupland
"Shampoo Planet"
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"
If you smile when you are alone, then you really mean it.
-Andy Rooney
