Quotations
Loneliness

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

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

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"

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

-George Eliot

Companionship is a foreign concept to some people. They fear it as much as the majority of people fear loneliness.

-Criss Jami

Don’t try to hog loneliness and keep it all to yourself. Share it with a special someone.

-Jarod Kintz "The Titanic would never have sunk if it were made out of a sink"

Nobody can discover the world for somebody else. Only when we discover it for ourselves does it become common ground and a common bond and we cease to be alone.

-Wendell Berry "A Place on Earth"

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"

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