Quotations
Loneliness

People who do a job that claims to be creative have to be alone to recharge their batteries. You can’t live 24 hours a day in the spotlight and remain creative. For people like me, solitude is a victory.
- Karl Lagerfeld

To be alone is to be different, to be different is to be alone.
- Suzanne Gordon

Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.
- Lawrence Durrell

Companionship is a foreign concept to some people. They fear it as much as the majority of people fear loneliness.
- Criss Jami

I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
- Henry David Thoreau

Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
- John Steinbeck

Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books written because authors couldn't find anyone to talk to.
- Alain De Botton

Being alone never felt right. Sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.
- Charles Bukowski

The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely.
- Charlotte Brontë

I felt very lonely when they were all there.
- Ernest Hemingway

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