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"
Quotations
Loneliness
If you smile when you are alone, then you really mean it.
-Andy Rooney
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"
I felt very lonely when they were all there.
-Ernest Hemingway
"A Farewell to Arms"
When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
-Tennessee Williams
"Camino Real"
It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.
-Albert Einstein
Even the company of the mad was better than the company of the dead.
-Stephen King
"The Stand"
Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.
-Douglas Coupland
"Shampoo Planet"
ut there are other words for privacy and independence. They are isolation and loneliness.
-Megan Whalen Turner
"The King of Attolia"
Novelty is a new kind of loneliness.
-Wendell Berry
