Be good and you will be lonesome.
-Mark Twain
"Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World"
Quotations
Loneliness
Even the company of the mad was better than the company of the dead.
-Stephen King
"The Stand"
Lonely was much better than alone.
-Toni Morrison
"The Bluest Eye"
You cannot be lonely if you like the person you’re alone with.
-Wayne W. Dyer
ut there are other words for privacy and independence. They are isolation and loneliness.
-Megan Whalen Turner
"The King of Attolia"
If you smile when you are alone, then you really mean it.
-Andy Rooney
What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
-George Eliot
We hear only our own voices, still echoes returning to our emptiness.
-Dejan Stojanović
Though we longed not to be lonely, we also feared the pain it would take us to be brought out of our lonely states. And after that fear, could we be guaranteed that we would never be returned to a state of loneliness again? We could not.
-Edward Carey
"Observatory Mansions"
I am lonely, sometimes, but I dare say it's good for me.
-Louisa May Alcott
"Little Women"
