Being alone never felt right. Sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.
-Charles Bukowski
"Women"
Quotations
Loneliness
It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.
-Albert Einstein
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"
The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely.
-Charlotte Brontë
The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!
-Edith Wharton
"The Age of Innocence"
I felt very lonely when they were all there.
-Ernest Hemingway
"A Farewell to Arms"
Even the company of the mad was better than the company of the dead.
-Stephen King
"The Stand"
If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.
-Jean Paul Sartre
My sleep wasn't peaceful, though. I have the sense of emerging from a world of dark, haunted places where I traveled alone.
-Suzanne Collins
"Mockingjay"
Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.
-Henry Rollins
