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
Quotations
Loneliness
What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
-George Eliot
If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right.
-Jules Renard
ut there are other words for privacy and independence. They are isolation and loneliness.
-Megan Whalen Turner
"The King of Attolia"
I felt very lonely when they were all there.
-Ernest Hemingway
"A Farewell to Arms"
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"
There is the solitude of suffering, when you go through darkness that is lonely, intense, and terrible. Words become powerless to express your pain; what others hear from your words is so distant and different from what you are actually suffering.
- John O'donohue
"Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom"
It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.
-Albert Einstein
