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Tennessee Williams Quotes about Loneliness

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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.

We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.

Tennessee Williams
Lonely, Loneliness, Being Alone
Orpheus Descending act 2, sc. 1 (1958)

When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.

Tennessee Williams
Lonely, Loneliness, Selfish
Tennessee Williams (2008). “Camino Real”, p.8, New Directions Publishing

My greatest affliction... is perhaps the major theme of my writings, the affliction of loneliness that follows me like a shadow, a very ponderous shadow too heavy to drag after me all of my days and nights.

Tennessee Williams
Loneliness, Writing, Night
Tennessee Williams (1975). “Memoirs”, p.99, New Directions Publishing

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