Even the company of the mad was better than the company of the dead.
-Stephen King
"The Stand"
Quotations
Loneliness
ut there are other words for privacy and independence. They are isolation and loneliness.
-Megan Whalen Turner
"The King of Attolia"
When we cannot bear to be alone, it means we do not properly value the only companion we will have from birth to death - ourselves.
-Eda LeShan
I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
-Henry David Thoreau
I need the pain of loneliness to make my imagination work.
-Orhan Pamuk
It's weird to feel like you miss someone you're not even sure you know.
-David Foster Wallace
"Infinite Jest"
Some people are just not meant to be in this world. It's just too much for them.
-Phoebe Steon
"The Boy on Cinnamon Street"
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"
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"
Even if you are alone you wage war with yourself.
-Dejan Stojanović
