I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
-Henry David Thoreau
Quotations
Loneliness
Lonely was much better than alone.
-Toni Morrison
"The Bluest Eye"
When we cannot bear to be alone, it means we do not properly value the only companion we will have from birth to death - ourselves.
-Eda LeShan
We live as we dream--Alone.
-Joseph Conrad
"Heart of Darkness"
I need the pain of loneliness to make my imagination work.
-Orhan Pamuk
Because, once alone, it is impossible to believe that one could ever have been otherwise. Loneliness is an absolute discovery.
-Marilynne Robinson
"Housekeeping"
Even if you are alone you wage war with yourself.
-Dejan Stojanović
Novelty is a new kind of loneliness.
-Wendell Berry
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"
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"
