ut there are other words for privacy and independence. They are isolation and loneliness.
-Megan Whalen Turner
"The King of Attolia"
Quotations
Loneliness
Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.
-Douglas Coupland
"Shampoo Planet"
Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.
-Lawrence Durrell
I'll never forget how the depression and loneliness felt good and bad at the same time. Still does.
-Henry Rollins
"The Portable Henry Rollins"
Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.
-Woody Allen
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
I felt very lonely when they were all there.
-Ernest Hemingway
"A Farewell to Arms"
Solitude is where one discovers one is not alone.
-Marty Rubin
I need the pain of loneliness to make my imagination work.
-Orhan Pamuk
We hear only our own voices, still echoes returning to our emptiness.
-Dejan Stojanović
