I need the pain of loneliness to make my imagination work.
-Orhan Pamuk
Quotations
Loneliness
I felt very lonely when they were all there.
-Ernest Hemingway
"A Farewell to Arms"
The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.
-F. Scott Fitzgerald
"The Great Gatsby"
It would be too easy to say that I feel invisible. Instead, I feel painfully visible, and entirely ignored.
-David Levithan
"Every Day"
Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.
-Arthur C. Clarke
To be alone is to be different, to be different is to be alone.
-Suzanne Gordon
Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than to be in bad company.
-Booker T. Washington
Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is richness of self.
-May Sarton
We hear only our own voices, still echoes returning to our emptiness.
-Dejan Stojanović
What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one's self?
-Henrik Ibsen
