The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!
-Edith Wharton
"The Age of Innocence"
Quotations
Loneliness
We hear only our own voices, still echoes returning to our emptiness.
-Dejan Stojanović
Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than to be in bad company.
-Booker T. Washington
I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
-Henry David Thoreau
Lonely was much better than alone.
-Toni Morrison
"The Bluest Eye"
Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.
-Douglas Coupland
"Shampoo Planet"
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"
Only on the Internet can a person be lonely and popular at the same time.
-Allison Burnett
"Undiscovered Gyrl"
Novelty is a new kind of loneliness.
-Wendell Berry
If you smile when you are alone, then you really mean it.
-Andy Rooney
