I need the pain of loneliness to make my imagination work.
-Orhan Pamuk
Quotations
Loneliness
My sleep wasn't peaceful, though. I have the sense of emerging from a world of dark, haunted places where I traveled alone.
-Suzanne Collins
"Mockingjay"
Loneliness is not a result of physical isolation; you're only lonely the day you realize that nobody shares your opinions.
-Sabah Carrim
"Humeirah"
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
When we cannot bear to be alone, it means we do not properly value the only companion we will have from birth to death - ourselves.
-Eda LeShan
When we are most alone is when we embrace another's loneliness.
-Mitch Albom
"The Time Keeper"
We hear only our own voices, still echoes returning to our emptiness.
-Dejan Stojanović
What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
-George Eliot
The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!
-Edith Wharton
"The Age of Innocence"
Even the company of the mad was better than the company of the dead.
-Stephen King
"The Stand"
