I felt very lonely when they were all there.
-Ernest Hemingway
"A Farewell to Arms"
Quotations
Loneliness
What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one's self?
-Henrik Ibsen
We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community.
-Dorothy Day
"The Long Loneliness: The Autobiography of the Legendary Catholic Social Activist"
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"
Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.
-Douglas Coupland
"Shampoo Planet"
Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than to be in bad company.
-Booker T. Washington
Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.
-Lawrence Durrell
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"
As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.
-Maya Angelou
If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.
-Aldous Huxley
"Brave New World"
