Companionship is a foreign concept to some people. They fear it as much as the majority of people fear loneliness.
-Criss Jami
Quotations
Loneliness
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
Sometimes being surrounded by everyone is the loneliest, because you'll realise you have no one to turn to.
-Soraya
To be alone is to be different, to be different is to be alone.
-Suzanne Gordon
If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right.
-Jules Renard
Solitude is fine but you need someone to tellyou that solitude is fine.
-Honoré De Balzac
Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than to be in bad company.
-Booker T. Washington
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
"Every You, Every Me"
The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!
-Edith Wharton
"The Age of Innocence"
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
"The Consolations of Philosophy"
