Quotations
Loneliness
Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books written because authors couldn't find anyone to talk to.
- Alain De Botton
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
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
Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than to be in bad company.
- Booker T. Washington
ut there are other words for privacy and independence. They are isolation and loneliness.
- Megan Whalen Turner
The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!
- Edith Wharton
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
It's weird to feel like you miss someone you're not even sure you know.
- David Foster Wallace
It's only natural to feel lonely after the enjoyable moments pass. But as you experience new joys those feelings of sorrow will start to fade.
- Mizu Sahara
Solitude is fine but you need someone to tellyou that solitude is fine.
- Honoré De Balzac
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