Loneliness is not a result of physical isolation; you're only lonely the day you realize that nobody shares your opinions.
-Sabah Carrim
"Humeirah"
Quotations
Loneliness
Be good and you will be lonesome.
-Mark Twain
"Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World"
If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.
-Aldous Huxley
"Brave New World"
Lonely was much better than alone.
-Toni Morrison
"The Bluest Eye"
I need the pain of loneliness to make my imagination work.
-Orhan Pamuk
Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than to be in bad company.
-Booker T. Washington
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 love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
-Henry David Thoreau
