When we are most alone is when we embrace another's loneliness.
-Mitch Albom
"The Time Keeper"
Quotations
Loneliness
Companionship is a foreign concept to some people. They fear it as much as the majority of people fear loneliness.
-Criss Jami
Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than to be in bad company.
-Booker T. Washington
I'll never forget how the depression and loneliness felt good and bad at the same time. Still does.
-Henry Rollins
"The Portable Henry Rollins"
Solitude is fine but you need someone to tellyou that solitude is fine.
-Honoré De Balzac
As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.
-Maya Angelou
I need the pain of loneliness to make my imagination work.
-Orhan Pamuk
Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.
-Henry Rollins
When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
-Tennessee Williams
"Camino Real"
Because, once alone, it is impossible to believe that one could ever have been otherwise. Loneliness is an absolute discovery.
-Marilynne Robinson
"Housekeeping"
