Be good and you will be lonesome.
-Mark Twain
"Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World"
Quotations
Loneliness
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"
If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.
-Aldous Huxley
"Brave New World"
Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
-John Steinbeck
"Of Mice and Men"
Nobody can discover the world for somebody else. Only when we discover it for ourselves does it become common ground and a common bond and we cease to be alone.
-Wendell Berry
"A Place on Earth"
Only on the Internet can a person be lonely and popular at the same time.
-Allison Burnett
"Undiscovered Gyrl"
Lonely was much better than alone.
-Toni Morrison
"The Bluest Eye"
Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.
-Woody Allen
To be alone is to be different, to be different is to be alone.
-Suzanne Gordon
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"
