Quotations
Loneliness
I need the pain of loneliness to make my imagination work.
- Orhan Pamuk
Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.
- Woody Allen
I have no privacy. But I feel so alone.
- Susan Beth Pfeffer
There is the solitude of suffering, when you go through darkness that is lonely, intense, and terrible. Words become powerless to express your pain; what others hear from your words is so distant and different from what you are actually suffering.
- John O'donohue
Being alone never felt right. Sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.
- Charles Bukowski
Loneliness is the standard that separates life from death.
- Sorin Cerin
As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.
- Maya Angelou
Perhaps only people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the universe. The others have a certain stickiness, they stick to the mass.
- D. H. Lawrence
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
Over time, loneliness gets inside you and doesn't go away.
- Carlos Ruiz Zafón
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