Man’s loneliness is but his fear of life.
-Eugene O'Neill
Quotations
Loneliness
To be alone is to be different, to be different is to be alone.
-Suzanne Gordon
If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right.
-Jules Renard
If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.
-Jean Paul Sartre
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
Even the company of the mad was better than the company of the dead.
-Stephen King
"The Stand"
We hear only our own voices, still echoes returning to our emptiness.
-Dejan Stojanović
Over time, loneliness gets inside you and doesn't go away.
-Carlos Ruiz Zafón
"The Angel's Game"
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"
Though we longed not to be lonely, we also feared the pain it would take us to be brought out of our lonely states. And after that fear, could we be guaranteed that we would never be returned to a state of loneliness again? We could not.
-Edward Carey
"Observatory Mansions"
