Being alone never felt right. Sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.
-Charles Bukowski
"Women"
Quotations
Loneliness
What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
-George Eliot
Loneliness isn’t a lack of people. It is a lack of understanding and acceptance.
-Bronnie Ware
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"
Man’s loneliness is but his fear of life.
-Eugene O'Neill
I have no privacy. But I feel so alone.
-Susan Beth Pfeffer
"Life As We Knew It"
The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.
-F. Scott Fitzgerald
"The Great Gatsby"
I am lonely, sometimes, but I dare say it's good for me.
-Louisa May Alcott
"Little Women"
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"
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"
