Because, once alone, it is impossible to believe that one could ever have been otherwise. Loneliness is an absolute discovery.
-Marilynne Robinson
"Housekeeping"
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"
What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
-George Eliot
Being alone never felt right. Sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.
-Charles Bukowski
"Women"
The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with the present.
-Alan Lightman
"Einstein's Dreams"
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
If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.
-Jean Paul Sartre
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
Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is richness of self.
-May Sarton
Lonely was much better than alone.
-Toni Morrison
"The Bluest Eye"
