The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely.
-Charlotte Brontë
Quotations
Loneliness
Loneliness is the prison of the human spirit. When we are lonely, we pace back and forth in small, shut-in worlds.
-John Powell
"Will the Real Me Please Stand Up?: 25 Guidelines for Good Communication"
Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than to be in bad company.
-Booker T. Washington
Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books written because authors couldn't find anyone to talk to.
-Alain De Botton
"The Consolations of Philosophy"
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
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"
What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one's self?
-Henrik Ibsen
Even if you are alone you wage war with yourself.
-Dejan Stojanović
