Lonely was much better than alone.
-Toni Morrison
"The Bluest Eye"
Quotations
Loneliness
Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.
-Woody Allen
Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.
-Lawrence Durrell
We live as we dream--Alone.
-Joseph Conrad
"Heart of Darkness"
The sun is such a lonely star. Whenever he comes out to see his friends, they all disappear.
-Joseph Gordon Levitt
"The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories: Volume 1"
If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.
-Aldous Huxley
"Brave New World"
Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.
-Arthur C. Clarke
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
-Mother Teresa
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"
Even the company of the mad was better than the company of the dead.
-Stephen King
"The Stand"
