Be good and you will be lonesome.
-Mark Twain
"Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World"
Quotations
Loneliness
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"
It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.
-Albert Einstein
Don’t try to hog loneliness and keep it all to yourself. Share it with a special someone.
-Jarod Kintz
"The Titanic would never have sunk if it were made out of a sink"
I need the pain of loneliness to make my imagination work.
-Orhan Pamuk
Though we longed not to be lonely, we also feared the pain it would take us to be brought out of our lonely states. And after that fear, could we be guaranteed that we would never be returned to a state of loneliness again? We could not.
-Edward Carey
"Observatory Mansions"
Loneliness isn’t a lack of people. It is a lack of understanding and acceptance.
-Bronnie Ware
I am lonely, sometimes, but I dare say it's good for me.
-Louisa May Alcott
"Little Women"
Being alone never felt right. Sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.
-Charles Bukowski
"Women"
Lonely was much better than alone.
-Toni Morrison
"The Bluest Eye"
