Because, once alone, it is impossible to believe that one could ever have been otherwise. Loneliness is an absolute discovery.
-Marilynne Robinson
"Housekeeping"
Quotations
Loneliness
It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.
-Albert Einstein
I felt very lonely when they were all there.
-Ernest Hemingway
"A Farewell to Arms"
If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.
-Jean Paul Sartre
All great and precious things are lonely.
-John Steinbeck
"East of Eden"
Lonely was much better than alone.
-Toni Morrison
"The Bluest Eye"
The loneliness you feel with another person, the wrong person, is the loneliest of all.
-Deb Caletti
"The Fortunes of Indigo Skye"
Solitude is fine but you need someone to tellyou that solitude is fine.
-Honoré De Balzac
I'll never forget how the depression and loneliness felt good and bad at the same time. Still does.
-Henry Rollins
"The Portable Henry Rollins"
To be alone is to be different, to be different is to be alone.
-Suzanne Gordon
