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
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"
I am lonely, sometimes, but I dare say it's good for me.
-Louisa May Alcott
"Little Women"
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"
If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.
-Jean Paul Sartre
If you smile when you are alone, then you really mean it.
-Andy Rooney
We hear only our own voices, still echoes returning to our emptiness.
-Dejan Stojanović
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"
Over time, loneliness gets inside you and doesn't go away.
-Carlos Ruiz Zafón
"The Angel's Game"
I felt very lonely when they were all there.
-Ernest Hemingway
"A Farewell to Arms"
