Even the company of the mad was better than the company of the dead.
-Stephen King
"The Stand"
Quotations
Loneliness
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
-Mother Teresa
If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.
-Jean Paul Sartre
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"
I have no privacy. But I feel so alone.
-Susan Beth Pfeffer
"Life As We Knew It"
Because, once alone, it is impossible to believe that one could ever have been otherwise. Loneliness is an absolute discovery.
-Marilynne Robinson
"Housekeeping"
Be good and you will be lonesome.
-Mark Twain
"Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World"
When we are most alone is when we embrace another's loneliness.
-Mitch Albom
"The Time Keeper"
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"
Don’t try to hog loneliness and keep it all to yourself. Share it with a special someone.
-Jarod Kintz
"The Titanic would never have sunk if it were made out of a sink"
