When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
-Tennessee Williams
"Camino Real"
Quotations
Loneliness
Novelty is a new kind of loneliness.
-Wendell Berry
Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
-John Steinbeck
"Of Mice and Men"
I felt very lonely when they were all there.
-Ernest Hemingway
"A Farewell to Arms"
We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community.
-Dorothy Day
"The Long Loneliness: The Autobiography of the Legendary Catholic Social Activist"
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 need the pain of loneliness to make my imagination work.
-Orhan Pamuk
Some people are just not meant to be in this world. It's just too much for them.
-Phoebe Steon
"The Boy on Cinnamon Street"
I have no privacy. But I feel so alone.
-Susan Beth Pfeffer
"Life As We Knew It"
Be good and you will be lonesome.
-Mark Twain
"Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World"
