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
Quotations
Loneliness
Loneliness is the unloneliest feeling in the world, as everyone has experienced it.
-Jarod Kintz
"This Book is Not for Sale"
What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
-George Eliot
Novelty is a new kind of loneliness.
-Wendell Berry
The sun is such a lonely star. Whenever he comes out to see his friends, they all disappear.
-Joseph Gordon Levitt
"The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories: Volume 1"
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
Be good and you will be lonesome.
-Mark Twain
"Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World"
What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one's self?
-Henrik Ibsen
Loneliness isn’t a lack of people. It is a lack of understanding and acceptance.
-Bronnie Ware
If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right.
-Jules Renard
