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
Sometimes being surrounded by everyone is the loneliest, because you'll realise you have no one to turn to.
-Soraya
Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
-John Steinbeck
"Of Mice and Men"
Lonely was much better than alone.
-Toni Morrison
"The Bluest Eye"
Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.
-Lawrence Durrell
Novelty is a new kind of loneliness.
-Wendell Berry
Language... has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.
-Paul Johannes Tillich
"The Eternal Now"
Loneliness is the unloneliest feeling in the world, as everyone has experienced it.
-Jarod Kintz
"This Book is Not for Sale"
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
-Mother Teresa
Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than to be in bad company.
-Booker T. Washington
