If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.
-Aldous Huxley
"Brave New World"
Quotations
Loneliness
Novelty is a new kind of loneliness.
-Wendell Berry
When we cannot bear to be alone, it means we do not properly value the only companion we will have from birth to death - ourselves.
-Eda LeShan
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
-Mother Teresa
If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.
-Jean Paul Sartre
Being alone never felt right. Sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.
-Charles Bukowski
"Women"
The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely.
-Charlotte Brontë
Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books written because authors couldn't find anyone to talk to.
-Alain De Botton
"The Consolations of Philosophy"
The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with the present.
-Alan Lightman
"Einstein's Dreams"
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"
