The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!
-Edith Wharton
"The Age of Innocence"
Quotations
Loneliness
It would be too easy to say that I feel invisible. Instead, I feel painfully visible, and entirely ignored.
-David Levithan
"Every Day"
Being alone never felt right. Sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.
-Charles Bukowski
"Women"
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"
I am lonely, sometimes, but I dare say it's good for me.
-Louisa May Alcott
"Little Women"
I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
-Henry David Thoreau
Thirsty for attention is a cry of loneliness.
-Toba Beta
"My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut"
Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.
-Arthur C. Clarke
