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
"The Consolations of Philosophy"
Quotations
Loneliness
Some people are just not meant to be in this world. It's just too much for them.
-Phoebe Steon
"The Boy on Cinnamon Street"
We hear only our own voices, still echoes returning to our emptiness.
-Dejan Stojanović
I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
-Henry David Thoreau
Nobody can discover the world for somebody else. Only when we discover it for ourselves does it become common ground and a common bond and we cease to be alone.
-Wendell Berry
"A Place on Earth"
Man’s loneliness is but his fear of life.
-Eugene O'Neill
Solitude is fine but you need someone to tellyou that solitude is fine.
-Honoré De Balzac
To be alone is to be different, to be different is to be alone.
-Suzanne Gordon
Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.
-Woody Allen
Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is richness of self.
-May Sarton
