“Loneliness, she thought, was craving for other people's company. But she did not know that loneliness can be an unnoticed cramping of the spirit for lack of companionship.”
Source: The Grass is Singing
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British novelist, poet, playwright, librettist, biographer … 1919–2013Related quotes
“True loneliness, I learned that day, isn’t the lack of others. It’s the lack of others quickly.”
Source: The Repossession Mambo (2009), Chapter 7 (p. 121)
Variant: She lacks the core of sureness, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on reflections of herself in others' eyes. She does not dare to be herself.
Source: Henry and June: From "A Journal of Love"--The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin
“I think she ate a salad and some soup.
And loneliness.
She ate that, too.”
Source: I Am the Messenger
Source: Wild Seed (1980), Chapter 6 (p. 100)
