Toni Morrison Quotes About Loneliness

Quotes about: Loneliness

• There is a loneliness that can be rocked. Arms crossed, knees drawn up, holding, holding on, this motion, unlike a ship's, smooths and contains the rocker. It's an inside kind--wrapped tight like skin. Then there is the loneliness that roams. No rocking can hold it down. It is alive. On its own. A dry and spreading thing that makes the sound of one's own feet going seem to come from a far-off place.

  Toni Morrison

  Loneliness, Feet, Skins

  FaceBook post by Toni Morrison from Nov 21, 2016

• There in the center of that silence was not eternity but the death of time and a loneliness so profound the word itself had no meaning.

  Toni Morrison

  Loneliness, Profound, Silence

  Toni Morrison (1987). “Sula”

• She learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still.

  Toni Morrison

  Loneliness, Lying, Color

• There, in the center of that silence was not eternity but the death of time and a loneliness so profound the word itself had no meaning. For loneliness assumed the absence of other people, and the solitude she found in that desperate terrain had never admitted the possibility of other people. She wept then. Tears for the deaths of the littlest things: the castaway shoes of children; broken stems of marsh grass battered and drowned by the sea; prom photographs of dead women she never knew; wedding rings in pawnshop windows; the tiny bodies of Cornish hens in a nest of rice.

  Toni Morrison

  Children, Loneliness, Sea

  Toni Morrison (1987). “Sula”

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