Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is richness of self.
-May Sarton
Quotations
Loneliness
Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books written because authors couldn't find anyone to talk to.
-Alain De Botton
"The Consolations of Philosophy"
Be good and you will be lonesome.
-Mark Twain
"Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World"
Novelty is a new kind of loneliness.
-Wendell Berry
We hear only our own voices, still echoes returning to our emptiness.
-Dejan Stojanović
If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right.
-Jules Renard
All great and precious things are lonely.
-John Steinbeck
"East of Eden"
Only on the Internet can a person be lonely and popular at the same time.
-Allison Burnett
"Undiscovered Gyrl"
The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely.
-Charlotte Brontë
Lonely was much better than alone.
-Toni Morrison
"The Bluest Eye"
