I had gotten so used to being alone, but never entirely used to it. Never used to it enough to stop wanting the alternative.
-David Levithan
"Every You, Every Me"
Quotations
Loneliness
I have no privacy. But I feel so alone.
-Susan Beth Pfeffer
"Life As We Knew It"
Only on the Internet can a person be lonely and popular at the same time.
-Allison Burnett
"Undiscovered Gyrl"
I felt very lonely when they were all there.
-Ernest Hemingway
"A Farewell to Arms"
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"
It would be too easy to say that I feel invisible. Instead, I feel painfully visible, and entirely ignored.
-David Levithan
"Every Day"
ut there are other words for privacy and independence. They are isolation and loneliness.
-Megan Whalen Turner
"The King of Attolia"
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"
I am lonely, sometimes, but I dare say it's good for me.
-Louisa May Alcott
"Little Women"
We hear only our own voices, still echoes returning to our emptiness.
-Dejan Stojanović
