The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.
-Lois Lowry
"The Giver"
Quotations
Loneliness
It would be too easy to say that I feel invisible. Instead, I feel painfully visible, and entirely ignored.
-David Levithan
"Every Day"
I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
-Henry David Thoreau
I am lonely, sometimes, but I dare say it's good for me.
-Louisa May Alcott
"Little Women"
If you smile when you are alone, then you really mean it.
-Andy Rooney
I have no privacy. But I feel so alone.
-Susan Beth Pfeffer
"Life As We Knew It"
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
We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community.
-Dorothy Day
"The Long Loneliness: The Autobiography of the Legendary Catholic Social Activist"
Lonely was much better than alone.
-Toni Morrison
"The Bluest Eye"
Even if you are alone you wage war with yourself.
-Dejan Stojanović
