I have no privacy. But I feel so alone.
-Susan Beth Pfeffer
"Life As We Knew It"
Quotations
Loneliness
Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.
-Arthur C. Clarke
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
My sleep wasn't peaceful, though. I have the sense of emerging from a world of dark, haunted places where I traveled alone.
-Suzanne Collins
"Mockingjay"
People who do a job that claims to be creative have to be alone to recharge their batteries. You can’t live 24 hours a day in the spotlight and remain creative. For people like me, solitude is a victory.
-Karl Lagerfeld
I need the pain of loneliness to make my imagination work.
-Orhan Pamuk
If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.
-Aldous Huxley
"Brave New World"
Loneliness isn’t a lack of people. It is a lack of understanding and acceptance.
-Bronnie Ware
To be alone is to be different, to be different is to be alone.
-Suzanne Gordon
What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
-George Eliot
