The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!
-Edith Wharton
"The Age of Innocence"
Quotations
Loneliness
If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right.
-Jules Renard
Solitude is where one discovers one is not alone.
-Marty Rubin
It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.
-Albert Einstein
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"
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
-Mother Teresa
I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
-Henry David Thoreau
Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.
-Arthur C. Clarke
Don’t try to hog loneliness and keep it all to yourself. Share it with a special someone.
-Jarod Kintz
"The Titanic would never have sunk if it were made out of a sink"
If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.
-Jean Paul Sartre
