Even the company of the mad was better than the company of the dead.
-Stephen King
"The Stand"
Quotations
Loneliness
We live as we dream--Alone.
-Joseph Conrad
"Heart of Darkness"
If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.
-Jean Paul Sartre
Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.
-Lawrence Durrell
I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
-Henry David Thoreau
Loneliness is the prison of the human spirit. When we are lonely, we pace back and forth in small, shut-in worlds.
-John Powell
"Will the Real Me Please Stand Up?: 25 Guidelines for Good Communication"
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
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"
Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than to be in bad company.
-Booker T. Washington
Lonely was much better than alone.
-Toni Morrison
"The Bluest Eye"
