lonelier quotes

Many a housewife staring at the back of her husband's newspaper, or listening to his breathing in bed is lonelier than any spinster in a rented room.

- Germaine Greer
  The Female Eunuch,'Love: Security'.

   There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, thanthemanwho has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.

- Ernest Millar Hemingway
  Death in the Afternoon, ch.11.