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"
Quotations
Loneliness
If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right.
-Jules Renard
Be good and you will be lonesome.
-Mark Twain
"Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World"
We live as we dream--Alone.
-Joseph Conrad
"Heart of Darkness"
What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
-George Eliot
The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!
-Edith Wharton
"The Age of Innocence"
Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.
-Lawrence Durrell
Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
-John Steinbeck
"Of Mice and Men"
Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.
-Woody Allen
I felt very lonely when they were all there.
-Ernest Hemingway
"A Farewell to Arms"
