Perhaps only people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the universe. The others have a certain stickiness, they stick to the mass.
-D. H. Lawrence
"Lady Chatterley's Lover"
Quotations
Loneliness
We hear only our own voices, still echoes returning to our emptiness.
-Dejan Stojanović
Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is richness of self.
-May Sarton
Lonely was much better than alone.
-Toni Morrison
"The Bluest Eye"
Be good and you will be lonesome.
-Mark Twain
"Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World"
Only on the Internet can a person be lonely and popular at the same time.
-Allison Burnett
"Undiscovered Gyrl"
I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
-Henry David Thoreau
Because, once alone, it is impossible to believe that one could ever have been otherwise. Loneliness is an absolute discovery.
-Marilynne Robinson
"Housekeeping"
To be alone is to be different, to be different is to be alone.
-Suzanne Gordon
As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.
-Maya Angelou
