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"
Quotations
Loneliness
If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.
-Aldous Huxley
"Brave New World"
Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.
-Woody Allen
When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
-Tennessee Williams
"Camino Real"
Even if you are alone you wage war with yourself.
-Dejan Stojanović
I have no privacy. But I feel so alone.
-Susan Beth Pfeffer
"Life As We Knew It"
Man’s loneliness is but his fear of life.
-Eugene O'Neill
Because, once alone, it is impossible to believe that one could ever have been otherwise. Loneliness is an absolute discovery.
-Marilynne Robinson
"Housekeeping"
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
When we cannot bear to be alone, it means we do not properly value the only companion we will have from birth to death - ourselves.
-Eda LeShan
