ut there are other words for privacy and independence. They are isolation and loneliness.
-Megan Whalen Turner
"The King of Attolia"
Quotations
Loneliness
If you smile when you are alone, then you really mean it.
-Andy Rooney
I need the pain of loneliness to make my imagination work.
-Orhan Pamuk
Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than to be in bad company.
-Booker T. Washington
I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
-Henry David Thoreau
As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.
-Maya Angelou
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"
The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!
-Edith Wharton
"The Age of Innocence"
Sometimes being surrounded by everyone is the loneliest, because you'll realise you have no one to turn to.
-Soraya
It's weird to feel like you miss someone you're not even sure you know.
-David Foster Wallace
"Infinite Jest"
