All great and precious things are lonely.
-John Steinbeck
"East of Eden"
Quotations
Loneliness
I am lonely, sometimes, but I dare say it's good for me.
-Louisa May Alcott
"Little Women"
If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right.
-Jules Renard
The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!
-Edith Wharton
"The Age of Innocence"
It would be too easy to say that I feel invisible. Instead, I feel painfully visible, and entirely ignored.
-David Levithan
"Every Day"
Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than to be in bad company.
-Booker T. Washington
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"
There is the solitude of suffering, when you go through darkness that is lonely, intense, and terrible. Words become powerless to express your pain; what others hear from your words is so distant and different from what you are actually suffering.
- John O'donohue
"Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom"
Even the company of the mad was better than the company of the dead.
-Stephen King
"The Stand"
Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is richness of self.
-May Sarton
