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
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
Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than to be in bad company.
- Booker T. Washington
Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.
- Lawrence Durrell
I had gotten so used to being alone, but never entirely used to it. Never used to it enough to stop wanting the alternative.
- David Levithan
Thirsty for attention is a cry of loneliness.
- Toba Beta
Even the company of the mad was better than the company of the dead.
- Stephen King
Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.
- Arthur C. Clarke
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
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
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