Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.
-Douglas Coupland
"Shampoo Planet"
Quotations
Loneliness
Only on the Internet can a person be lonely and popular at the same time.
-Allison Burnett
"Undiscovered Gyrl"
To be alone is to be different, to be different is to be alone.
-Suzanne Gordon
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"
Because, once alone, it is impossible to believe that one could ever have been otherwise. Loneliness is an absolute discovery.
-Marilynne Robinson
"Housekeeping"
I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
-Henry David Thoreau
Lonely was much better than alone.
-Toni Morrison
"The Bluest Eye"
It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.
-Albert Einstein
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
-Mother Teresa
Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.
-Arthur C. Clarke
