Flannery O'Connor Quotes

It's lonely up here.

I really was alone, and the only thing worse than being alone was having everyone else see how lonely you were

Alone. Yes, that's the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn't hold a candle to it and hell is only a poor synonym.

What remains is solitude.

If misery loves company, misery has company enough.

Loneliness comes with life.

You reach out your hand, but you're all alone, in those time passages.

I am alone; I am always alone no matter what.

It can be kind of gruesome at times, making things alone.

I'm so secluded. Very alone.

It's a terrible feeling being lonely.

I felt very alone in Hollywood.

Mr. Brad Delp. J'ai une ame solitaire. I am a lonely soul.

The writer is all alone.

At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.

Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone.

Solitude, isolation, are painful things and beyond human endurance.

The sick soon come to understand that they live in a different world from that of the well and that the two cannot communicate.

... unspeakably lonely.

I have been trying, for some time now, to find dignity in my loneliness. I have been finding this hard to do. It is easier, of course, to find dignity in one's solitude. Loneliness is solitude with a problem.

She had become accustomed to being lonely. She was used to walking alone and to being considered 'different.' She did not suffer too much.

But inside or out, I was alone, and I was beginning to wonder if I always had been, if I always would be.

Well, I know about loneliness. I won't talk about it, but I was very lonely after the war. I know what it feels like to spend a whole weekend all by yourself and no one wants you at all.

Words are loneliness.

I thought I knew what loneliness was before he found me, but I had no clue. You don't know what real loneliness is until you've known the opposite.