If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.
-Jean Paul Sartre
Quotations
Loneliness
I felt very lonely when they were all there.
-Ernest Hemingway
"A Farewell to Arms"
Nobody can discover the world for somebody else. Only when we discover it for ourselves does it become common ground and a common bond and we cease to be alone.
-Wendell Berry
"A Place on Earth"
Lonely was much better than alone.
-Toni Morrison
"The Bluest Eye"
To be alone is to be different, to be different is to be alone.
-Suzanne Gordon
Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.
-Lawrence Durrell
It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.
-Albert Einstein
Be good and you will be lonesome.
-Mark Twain
"Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World"
ut there are other words for privacy and independence. They are isolation and loneliness.
-Megan Whalen Turner
"The King of Attolia"
If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right.
-Jules Renard
