Lonely was much better than alone.
-Toni Morrison
"The Bluest Eye"
Quotations
Loneliness
You cannot be lonely if you like the person you’re alone with.
-Wayne W. Dyer
A lonely day is God's way of saying that he wants to spend some quality time with you.
-Criss Jami
Man’s loneliness is but his fear of life.
-Eugene O'Neill
What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
-George Eliot
Because, once alone, it is impossible to believe that one could ever have been otherwise. Loneliness is an absolute discovery.
-Marilynne Robinson
"Housekeeping"
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"
Loneliness is the unloneliest feeling in the world, as everyone has experienced it.
-Jarod Kintz
"This Book is Not for Sale"
ut there are other words for privacy and independence. They are isolation and loneliness.
-Megan Whalen Turner
"The King of Attolia"
It would be too easy to say that I feel invisible. Instead, I feel painfully visible, and entirely ignored.
-David Levithan
"Every Day"
