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
We live as we dream--Alone.
-Joseph Conrad
"Heart of Darkness"
The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with the present.
-Alan Lightman
"Einstein's Dreams"
ut there are other words for privacy and independence. They are isolation and loneliness.
-Megan Whalen Turner
"The King of Attolia"
What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
-George Eliot
Even if you are alone you wage war with yourself.
-Dejan Stojanović
If you smile when you are alone, then you really mean it.
-Andy Rooney
All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart.
-Tahereh Mafi
"Shatter Me"
I felt very lonely when they were all there.
-Ernest Hemingway
"A Farewell to Arms"
If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.
-Jean Paul Sartre
