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"
Quotations
Loneliness
I am lonely, sometimes, but I dare say it's good for me.
-Louisa May Alcott
"Little Women"
All great and precious things are lonely.
-John Steinbeck
"East of Eden"
Novelty is a new kind of loneliness.
-Wendell Berry
It's only natural to feel lonely after the enjoyable moments pass. But as you experience new joys those feelings of sorrow will start to fade.
-Mizu Sahara
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"
Lonely was much better than alone.
-Toni Morrison
"The Bluest Eye"
Perhaps only people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the universe. The others have a certain stickiness, they stick to the mass.
-D. H. Lawrence
"Lady Chatterley's Lover"
