If you smile when you are alone, then you really mean it.
-Andy Rooney
Quotations
Loneliness
Loneliness is the standard that separates life from death.
-Sorin Cerin
"Wisdom Collection: The Book of Wisdom"
Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.
-Douglas Coupland
"Shampoo Planet"
I need the pain of loneliness to make my imagination work.
-Orhan Pamuk
Don’t try to hog loneliness and keep it all to yourself. Share it with a special someone.
-Jarod Kintz
"The Titanic would never have sunk if it were made out of a sink"
Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than to be in bad company.
-Booker T. Washington
Man’s loneliness is but his fear of life.
-Eugene O'Neill
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"
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
Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
-John Steinbeck
"Of Mice and Men"
