If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.
-Jean Paul Sartre
Quotations
Loneliness
Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.
-Henry Rollins
The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!
-Edith Wharton
"The Age of Innocence"
A lonely day is God's way of saying that he wants to spend some quality time with you.
-Criss Jami
Novelty is a new kind of loneliness.
-Wendell Berry
Solitude is fine but you need someone to tellyou that solitude is fine.
-Honoré De Balzac
The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.
-Lois Lowry
"The Giver"
Language... has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.
-Paul Johannes Tillich
"The Eternal Now"
Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
-John Steinbeck
"Of Mice and Men"
I need the pain of loneliness to make my imagination work.
-Orhan Pamuk
