To be alone is to be different, to be different is to be alone.
-Suzanne Gordon
Quotations
Loneliness
It's weird to feel like you miss someone you're not even sure you know.
-David Foster Wallace
"Infinite Jest"
Be good and you will be lonesome.
-Mark Twain
"Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World"
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
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"
Language... has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.
-Paul Johannes Tillich
"The Eternal Now"
Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.
-Lawrence Durrell
If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.
-Jean Paul Sartre
It's only natural to feel lonely after the enjoyable moments pass. But as you experience new joys those feelings of sorrow will start to fade.
-Mizu Sahara
Being alone never felt right. Sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.
-Charles Bukowski
"Women"
