Quotations
Loneliness
Man’s loneliness is but his fear of life.
- Eugene O'Neill
I had gotten so used to being alone, but never entirely used to it. Never used to it enough to stop wanting the alternative.
- David Levithan
The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.
- Lois Lowry
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
If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.
- Aldous Huxley
Even the company of the mad was better than the company of the dead.
- Stephen King
When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
- Tennessee Williams
People who do a job that claims to be creative have to be alone to recharge their batteries. You can’t live 24 hours a day in the spotlight and remain creative. For people like me, solitude is a victory.
- Karl Lagerfeld
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
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
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