ut there are other words for privacy and independence. They are isolation and loneliness.
-Megan Whalen Turner
"The King of Attolia"
Quotations
Loneliness
Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.
-Douglas Coupland
"Shampoo Planet"
Man’s loneliness is but his fear of life.
-Eugene O'Neill
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
Solitude is where one discovers one is not alone.
-Marty Rubin
We hear only our own voices, still echoes returning to our emptiness.
-Dejan Stojanović
It's weird to feel like you miss someone you're not even sure you know.
-David Foster Wallace
"Infinite Jest"
When we are most alone is when we embrace another's loneliness.
-Mitch Albom
"The Time Keeper"
The sun is such a lonely star. Whenever he comes out to see his friends, they all disappear.
-Joseph Gordon Levitt
"The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories: Volume 1"
Because, once alone, it is impossible to believe that one could ever have been otherwise. Loneliness is an absolute discovery.
-Marilynne Robinson
"Housekeeping"
