If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.
-Aldous Huxley
"Brave New World"
Quotations
Loneliness
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"
What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
-George Eliot
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"
Learning from other people's mistakes is better than making your own. And it is easier to live lonely than to have a broken heart.
-Aria Adams
"Reminiscence"
Because, once alone, it is impossible to believe that one could ever have been otherwise. Loneliness is an absolute discovery.
-Marilynne Robinson
"Housekeeping"
I have no privacy. But I feel so alone.
-Susan Beth Pfeffer
"Life As We Knew It"
Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than to be in bad company.
-Booker T. Washington
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"
You cannot be lonely if you like the person you’re alone with.
-Wayne W. Dyer
