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
Solitude is where one discovers one is not alone.
-Marty Rubin
Learning from other people's mistakes is better than making your own. And it is easier to live lonely than to have a broken heart.
-Aria Adams
"Reminiscence"
We hear only our own voices, still echoes returning to our emptiness.
-Dejan Stojanović
What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one's self?
-Henrik Ibsen
When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
-Tennessee Williams
"Camino Real"
A lonely day is God's way of saying that he wants to spend some quality time with you.
-Criss Jami
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"
It would be too easy to say that I feel invisible. Instead, I feel painfully visible, and entirely ignored.
-David Levithan
"Every Day"
Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than to be in bad company.
-Booker T. Washington
