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
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"
Loneliness isn’t a lack of people. It is a lack of understanding and acceptance.
-Bronnie Ware
I need the pain of loneliness to make my imagination work.
-Orhan Pamuk
Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.
-Arthur C. Clarke
Lonely was much better than alone.
-Toni Morrison
"The Bluest Eye"
I am lonely, sometimes, but I dare say it's good for me.
-Louisa May Alcott
"Little Women"
Solitude is where one discovers one is not alone.
-Marty Rubin
