Be good and you will be lonesome.
-Mark Twain
"Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World"
Quotations
Loneliness
I am lonely, sometimes, but I dare say it's good for me.
-Louisa May Alcott
"Little Women"
Even the company of the mad was better than the company of the dead.
-Stephen King
"The Stand"
It's weird to feel like you miss someone you're not even sure you know.
-David Foster Wallace
"Infinite Jest"
Even if you are alone you wage war with yourself.
-Dejan Stojanović
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"
Some people are just not meant to be in this world. It's just too much for them.
-Phoebe Steon
"The Boy on Cinnamon Street"
If you smile when you are alone, then you really mean it.
-Andy Rooney
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"
To be alone is to be different, to be different is to be alone.
-Suzanne Gordon
